• geissi@feddit.de
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    The problem for those operating a Lemmy instance is that they are hosting copies of the content of all federated instances.
    So if one instance is filled with illegal content, the admins of all federated instances must remove it on their instances to avoid law enforcement kicking down their doors.

    If there is too much illegal content on one instance to effectively moderate manually, defederation is the solution.

    This is beside the fact, that some might have their own additional non-legally mandated requirements for content they host on their platform.

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      1 year ago

      The problem for those operating a Lemmy instance is that they are hosting copies of the content of all federated instances.
      If that’s genuinely the way it works, it seems really dumb.

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          1 year ago

          Fetch data from instances you’re trying to access, rather than hosting everything on all servers. That seems like a quick way to get half the fediverse defederated from each other.

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            That’s exactly what happens. But you have to store the fetched data on your instance if you want to display it there.