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question regarding external NSFW communities. (sh.itjust.works)

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

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Hi, reddit refugee here. I saw the rule in the main post stating that this instance will not allow NSFW content for now due to the legal ramifications & moderating needs. I 100% understand and agree with that decision, however, does this mean that I (as a user registered to sh.itjust.works) cannot subscribe to, read, or post in NSFW communities on other instances? Posts belong to a single community and communities belong to a single lemmy instance, correct? If my assumption here is correct, there's no risk to sh.itjust.works from interacting with these external communities, so long as we dont try to host a new one here, right?

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

If I understand correctly the way the protocol works, when you federate to a community you are instructing your instance's server (in this case sh.itjust.works) to start copying every post and comment that is posted on the target community. This would in turn mean that, if you federate with an NSFW community, the sh.itjust.works admin would start copying NSFW posts to his server, with all the legal repercussions of this.

Of course, if this was actually a problem for the admins they'd have turned off federation / put federation on allow list / would have defederated from a bunch of NSFW instances. Considering none of these are the case, I'd say you can chill and just subscribe to whatever community interests you.