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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[–] Hank@kbin.social 97 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Federated content is stored in the balls.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 15 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Unsustainable@lemmy.today 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My balls?

[–] WhiteRice@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone’s balls

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only Ligma's.

[–] rmuk 3 points 1 year ago

Poor Ligma. Worst case of Dee's syndrome I've ever seen.

[–] Encode1307@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

It's decentralized, so across everyone's balls

[–] Balls@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I can confirm this to be true