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There is a concept of a federated timeline, which does get synced to your local instance. If you follow someone on a remote instance, that instance feeds conten
by bisby 7y ago
There is a concept of a federated timeline, which does get synced to your local instance. If you follow someone on a remote instance, that instance feeds content into your instance so it can be loaded.
- StavrosK 7y agoIt syncs the people you follow, right? So presumably the only additional content on your instance is content from the people you follow, which should generally be low-risk.
- bisby 7y agoI believe once you follow someone, you become federated with their instance. and you potentially receive all content from that instance... I think? there are also admin controls for managing moderation and federation.
- metildaa 7y agoYou can also block just media if an instance is known to host images that are illegal in your country or your users don't want to see (silencing is a better option for the latter tho).
- JoshTriplett 7y agoI still don't want to host anyone else's content, for much the same reason I'm never going to have an unmoderated comment system on a site.