Comment on What happens to the content if an Lemmy instance shuts down?
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days agoI didn’t know that. That seems to be a very bad decision.
I would have thought there was some sort of private public key involved in instance authentication.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 17 hours ago
There is, but the protocol is designed that you can’t buy a domain for a month, set up a server, and then let it expire, leaving it unable to use ActivityPub for decades after because you posted a few things to Mastodon with popular usernames.