Comment on Feddit.UK has finally kicked the bucket- and what happens next.
Tatters@lemmy.world 1 year agoI assume no-one, including the feddit uk admins, can access the server to copy anything off it, so it will all be lost.
Comment on Feddit.UK has finally kicked the bucket- and what happens next.
Tatters@lemmy.world 1 year agoI assume no-one, including the feddit uk admins, can access the server to copy anything off it, so it will all be lost.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Isn’t one of the benefits of federation that content is backed up in multiple places?
For example, I can still view all the content at sh.itjust.works/c/hellointernet@feddit.uk, despite not being able to access feddit/c/hellointernet.
magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 1 year ago
You can see the content but not, afaik, move the community or take ownership of it. I’m afraid you’ll have to recreate it somewhere more stable.
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 year ago
I wonder what happens if somebody recycles a domain that was previously used for another instance…
magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 1 year ago
Federation will break.
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe servers need a contingency plan to be able to communicate with users as to backup options in case one goes down?
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I guess I’m kind of asking / supposing, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if lemmy / activitypub doesn’t really work that way.
As in, posts to feddit.uk are stored on feddit.uk. If you read a thread from sh.itjust.works/c/whatever@feddit.uk then sh.itjust.works server will pull it down from feddit.uk and show you the post. It may even cache a copy of the post to show it to another user, but that’s not the same as backing up the post.