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?
Also, all data isn’t stored on every Lemmy I stance, only (or mostly I guess) where it is relevant.
As long as 1 person from an instance is subscribed to a community, that person’s instance will fetch everything that happens inside that community (and keep storing it even if they later unsubscribe, unless manually purged by an instance admin)
So not everything everywhere but quite not that efficient …
Thanks for the explanation.