If I understand the way the Fediverse works correctly, global content viewed by members of an instance gets cached on that instance. So even though this thread is "on" lemmy.world, because I'm participating here there's also a copy on sh.itjust.works and that copy gets passed to me.
Among the instances sh.itjust.works is defederated from, there's one called "rape.pet". I'm okay with The_Dude saying "No, you can't get there from here" to shit like that.