this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2023
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I didn't quite realize that, figured that when you were viewing another instances' content it was loading from that instance. I guess that means that Lemmy content across all instances has loads of redundant copies.
Yup. It's mirrored content all the way down.
Noob question here. Does that mean each instance must hold the totality of the content it knows about?
Yes it does. But only content created after subscribing to that community.