Comment on What happens to the content if an Lemmy instance shuts down?

skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  While they could put up weird images, they can’t change posts without everyones private keys.

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  • skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was misremembering something here, mastodon always keeps old keys iirc, but lemmy caches them temporarily iirc.

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• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I didn’t know that. That seems to be a very bad decision.

  I would have thought there was some sort of private public key involved in instance authentication.

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