I’ve been on Lemmy for some time now and it’s time for me to finally understand how Federation works. I have general idea and I have accounts on three federated instances, but I need some details.

Let Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta be four federated instances. I have an account on Alpha and create a post in a community on Beta. A persoson from Gamma comments on it and a person from Delta upvotes the post and the comment.

The question: On which instances are the post, the comment and the upvotes stored?

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96 points

Federated content is stored in the balls.

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15 points

Thank god someone made the joke already!
I wouldn’t have had the federated content holders

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8 points

My balls?

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21 points

Everyone’s balls

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4 points

Only Ligma’s.

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13 points

It’s decentralized, so across everyone’s balls

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I can confirm this to be true

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