Comment

Comment on Feddit.UK has finally kicked the bucket- and what happens next.

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.

Sort:hotnew top

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.

source
- Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I wonder what happens if somebody recycles a domain that was previously used for another instance…
  
  source
  - magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Federation will break.
    
    source
- 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?
  
  source
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.

source