• General_Effort@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    how the data is used and stored

    That’s a tricky one and will potentially cause a lot of problems to open social media in Europe. Just know that there is no such thing as “looking” at a post, comment, or profile. It gets downloaded to your device and stored for as long as it’s needed, or maybe longer.

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      15 hours ago

      I understand that. Just like Lemmy where all the instances that are federated have a copy of the posts and comments you make.

      However, you have the option to create your own instance and federate or not with any community you want.

      If there is one mega instance, deferating from it effectively kills the social media. Thus my train of thoughts.

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        15 hours ago

        No offense. I just never know how widely understood such facts are. People do not seem to appreciate that open social media requires that the data be stored anywhere.

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          9 hours ago

          No worries, no offense taken.

          Hopefully people will see discussions like ours and learn a little something about how things work.