Do they get adopted by other instances? Are they still accessible from other instances? Can you still post on them from another instance?
Edit: From my understanding every instance that deals with a community has a cached copy. Will that copy disappear after a certain time, because it can’t phone to home anymore?
As of Lemmy 0.18.1, cached copies on other instances do not disappear if the original instance has died.
In theory, it might even be possible to actually clone a cached copy into a new local community. This would require some database hacking, so not recommended unless you’re familiar with Lemmy code and SQL.
It’s actually extremely easy to flip a remote community, into being a “local” one.
If I understand the fediverse correctly, if the instance dies (meaning all the background servers are taken away), everything on that instance is gone; accounts, communities, posts, comments. Since the instance is the host, they are the ones holding the data; if they decide to stop, it’s gone.
However, the creator of the community and its members could create new accounts on another instance to rebuild the community.
The accounts are gone-
But, communities, posts, comments are all replicated. With a single flip of a bit, you can take that cached copy, and turn it into a local community.
Users would need to re-subscribe/follow/etc, but, all of the data would be there.
Lemmy is instanced. if the host “dies” everthing else dies with it. even the accounts and everything. as far as i understand it. maybe there will be a few cached posts from that instance but im not sure about that.
This is going to make it impossible for any technical help communities to take root. The fact that the whole thing can just go poof completely turns me off from using something like that.
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It’ll never happen, centralised means stable. Just check out what this company called Google have built!
They are currently working hard to discontinue your favourite Google service.
And they’re being sarcastic.
