As the Fediverse grows more and more, rules and regulations become more important. For example, is Lemmy GDPR complient? If not, are admins aware of the possible consequence? What does this mean for the growth of Lemmy?

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    1 year ago

    the copy it has is canonical and kept forever until such a time that it receives an edit/delete signal from the original instance.

    I don’t see this staying in Lemmy as the federation grows. I can’t see admins being able to sustain these costs.

    • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Well… that’s just kind of how it has to work. Storage is cheaper than bandwidth and it’s not a close contest. Historically, storage costs have fallen faster than networks have grown and it is probably safe to assume that this trend will continue indefinitely.

      FWIW: The stuff that gets federated is all text. Image uploads aren’t federated at all – those are just shared as URLs which point to the instance wherein they were originally uploaded. This is actually why things like avatars are currently so unreliable on Lemmy – they can’t scale well without there being local copies.