I run a pretty locked down Firefox browser and I noticed when browsing lemmy.world that the browser wants to pull stuff from a long list of other instances, which fails because they aren’t trusted. Is this normal? I thought an instance would collect the things you are subscribed to and store them locally so that you didn’t have to go talk to 20 different servers. Not true?
Yep I can still read the threads, I just have a lot of empty spaces where images would be. I do wonder about the security implications of this. Is it just downloading images, or would the ‘foreign’ instances be able to run javascript in my browser? I’ll obviously need to brush up on **exactly ** how Lemmy works before trusting any of those other instances. I just threw out the question because I didn’t want to assume, but it now makes sense that I’ve seen it more and more as I subscribe to more communities that aren’t hosted on lemmy.world.