Comment on Feddit.UK has finally kicked the bucket- and what happens next.
Tatters@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
I wonder what happens if somebody recycles a domain that was previously used for another instance…
magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 10 months ago
Federation will break.
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months 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.