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What are some downsides of software being federated? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In the same way that it's part of the fediverse specs to copy info from another instance when a user requests it, it's also part of the specs to delete info when an instance requests it. Goes both ways. The only way it becomes a problem is if your instance deliberately disables certain functionality, or otherwise fails to moderate.

Of course if a user copies the info locally and holds a copy there's no stopping them, but reddit would have the same issue there.