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Do all the other Lemmy instances keep a copy of the content from lemm.ee?

Yes, but it only keeps text and links, any images uploaded to lemm.ee will be lost. Any community in lemm.ee will still be visible but nobody outside of your instance will see anything you post there so they're effectively dead.

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TrivialKin@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

nobody outside of your instance will see anything you post there

So you are saying that if let’s say a user from lemmy.world makes a post to the post-shutdown lemm.ee community, only users within lemmy.world can see the content? Did I understand that correctly? Basically each instance has a "copy of lemm.ee’s community, and lemm.ee` is acting as the main distributor of events between these “isolated communities”.

Is there any indication for the lemmy.world people to notice that the instance hosting the community is gone? Wouldn’t there be cases where users continue posting to a community who’s instances have shutdown, without realizing that they are not visible outside?

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- simple@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Exactly, yes.
  
  Is there any indication for the lemmy.world people to notice that the instance hosting the community is gone?
  
  I don't think there is but I remember the lemmy devs saying they'll add a warning at some point when a community can't be reached.
  
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