I was thinking about this recently… By going to a federated system, one that essentially copies all of your content from one instance to another, when you delete a comment, does that comment get deleted on every instance? Is that even possible?
I was thinking about this recently… By going to a federated system, one that essentially copies all of your content from one instance to another, when you delete a comment, does that comment get deleted on every instance? Is that even possible?
It could be possible if all instances get the “delete”-message and adhere to it. Federated servers are not the best for privacy, but is any service that let’s you post to the general public? You don’t even need an account to view content on Lemmy or /kbin. And everybody can setup something malicious to federate everything and do an analysis or whatever on it. Furthermore you need to trust your instance owner, since that person knows the most about you (also your PM’s within the server, your IP, email, etc.). So you now need to trust a person instead of a company. But I think the fediverse is a nice alternative to all the corporate versions. And at the moment we are not the product. But someone will benefit from the openess of the fediverse.