It's actually a "mirror" moreso than a cache. There's a complete, distinct, URL for each piece of mirrored content, that points a specific server and is indexable by search engines independent of the original. Instances ARE hosting the data directly.
Not sure which part of that law you're going with but I appreciate the arrogance of quoting US law as a silver bullet on a global platform in a thread started on a server in Germany.
Those parentheses are doing a lot of heavy lifting.
That's one thing that is constantly overlooked, Reddit IS and will remain "better" in this regard because they have commercial backing and revenue to hire lawyers and put up legal fights. "Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy" isn't going to happen in the Fediverse because most instances don't have the resources to start the fight, nevermind win it.
Nothing is encrypted except a user's password. If you have access to the database you can replace that with a known password hash.
Interesting. I never would've considered that since I only sort by New. Can neither confirm nor deny because I can't read Rust.
Tricky situation. False positives happen and a significant amount of what AppCleaner picks up is technically “user data”.
Gotcha. As others have already mentioned it is obtuse. If you end up at the post via your own instance it works but if someone links directly to the canonical post then you get confronted with needing to login. e.g. I see this post as https://mylemmy.win/post/114914, so I can interact just fine whereas if someone sent me the link to https://lemmy.world/post/1194109 (same post, different entry point) I'm stuck.
It's funny because using the /u/ format seems to work just fine in the web interface, creating the proper link. Typing it out in the @ format doesn't automatically create the hyperlink when I type it, but yours works just fine. ¯\(ツ)/¯
That's why the topic is "You Should Know" rather than "I've Had A Revelation That No One Has Ever Considered".
TrinityTek.win is available. $3.16/yr through Cloudflare. Probably a buck or so more through others.
muddybulldog
joined 1 year ago
Lemmy isn't one place. It's hundred of independent places across the globe that communicate with each other. Each subject to the laws where they are hosted, the laws where they provide service and the judgements of their independent administrators.