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Iโve been curious about this also but for a different reason. I assume all my posts and comments are hosted at the instance Iโm subscribed to. Should that server go down away for any reason my account and all its data would be lost right? Iโd rather be in control of keeping my own data safe.
There was an excellent post about this today that I saw. Essentially it's like this:
There is an original community, and then there are mirror copies.
So if you post a comment via your server to a community that is actually hosted on kbin.social for example, you are posting a comment to the mirror of that community (on your local instance), which then sends the comment out to the actual original community, which then federates your comment out to all instances that are mirroring that community.
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