Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month
k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
In this situation, a user on lemm.ee would have to export their settings and create a new account elsewhere, right? Do their comments and post histories get exported too? I joined Lemmy only a month ago; this is the first time seeing an instance go down, so I’d appreciate it if someone here could clarify that.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, but if I understand it correctly, they will live on in other servers that were federated at the time they were posted.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Oh I didn’t realise that how it worked.
Doesn’t that mean that the hosting requirements for every instance are just going to become unfeasibly large as time goes on, or do the files get cleared out after a couple of years?
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Text is very small and easily compressible, it’s more images that you need to worry about.
k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Thank you kindly!