If I post nsfw onto a community hosted on lemmynsfw, for example, from the sh.itjust.works account, would that breaking the no pron rule, or not necessarily, since it’s posted on a different instance?

  • tasbir49@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    The potential liability for instance owners due to this is massive. Images should be stored in the instances of the community they’re posted to.

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      1 year ago

      It’s fundamental to the design of Lemmy’s implementation of federation via ActivityPub that all content from an account be hosted on the account’s instance.

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        1 year ago

        If it’s an ActivityPub feature, this is somewhat of a poor design if you ask me (or at least not being able to change this). He’s right, this feature could put instance owners in legal problems, because the data in question is actually stored on their server, not the server that you posted the image on.

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      1 year ago

      Indeed, this is a huge design flaw. You would basically have to police everything that users post on other instances as well. Do you even have moderation tools for this?

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, you’re right… but I think the problem is, the login info… but, than again, how could it store copies of my post, but not images.

      In any case, I do agree that this is something that should be looked into and discussed in length.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t see why the login info is an issue, and storing a copy of a post wirh just a link to an image makes sense.

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          I really have no idea how other instances actually confirm that you’re posting from another instance, not just emulating that you’re a user on another instance. That might be a part of ActivityPub, but I haven’t looked at code, wouldn’t know.

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            This is part of the ActivityPub protocol, but I haven’t looked into it enough to know how it’s defined.