I run a pretty locked down Firefox browser and I noticed when browsing lemmy.world that the browser wants to pull stuff from a long list of other instances, which fails because they aren’t trusted. Is this normal? I thought an instance would collect the things you are subscribed to and store them locally so that you didn’t have to go talk to 20 different servers. Not true?

  • mrmanager@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    Sure but there is nothing stopping an instance owner from configuring the local database to not delete, or to have a copy of the database mirrored to some other database.

    So while most instances will delete, it’s fair to say that if someone wants to keep a copy of all messages somewhere, it’s simple to accomplish that.

    What I would do is simply to listen to the activitypub port, and send all raw incoming messages somewhere and store them forever.

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      1 year ago

      Sure, it’s not hard to not comply with GDPR. I was speaking from the perspective of a small instance admin who would like to generally comply without having to think about.