I've been on Lemmy for some time now and it's time for me to finally understand how Federation works. I have general idea and I have accounts on three federated instances, but I need some details.

Let Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta be four federated instances. I have an account on Alpha and create a post in a community on Beta. A persoson from Gamma comments on it and a person from Delta upvotes the post and the comment.

The question: On which instances are the post, the comment and the upvotes stored?

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[–] Falmarri 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It depends what you mean by inefficient. It's very efficient if you're optimizing for robustness and control of data.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's also very efficient if you're optimizing for having an actual fucking conversation without algorithms or ads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We’ve been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Control or redundancy of data?

If there is a federated delete, I get the impression there is no actual way to ensure that data is deleted?

[–] Falmarri 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't mean control from the perspective of someone posting data. I mean from the perspective of the server owner.

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

Sorry, what do you mean?