Question: Where is federated content stored?

Machefi@lemm.ee to Fediverse@lemmy.world – 93 points –

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

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

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

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?

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