Comment on Feddit.UK has finally kicked the bucket- and what happens next.
Vub@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Wow. If this isn’t a perfect example of the possible problems with federated networks I don’t know what is.
I’m still for it of course. But it has to be done right and this is far from that.
it is possible now to copy your data to another account on another instance.
in the future lemmy might even support something like having your account automatically backed up to another instance. Similar to a backup email address at your main email address.
It’s possible to backup your data, but you have to do it beforehand. There’s no chance to save your data once the server goes down.
What data do you want backed up though ?
That is something that should be possible: Choosing a backup sync server that have my data(profile). I hope they implement that
Would it be difficult for apps to do it automatically? Just have a constant backup hosted on your phone or cloud account?
Profile backup would be so cool! I’m super for it.
Big problem with lemmy in particular is that communities are server based and so if you lose the server you lose the whole community.
On mastodon, if I talk to person 1@a.com and person 2@b.com and a.com goes down, I can still talk to person 2@b.com. on lemmy, I might be talking to both in community@c.com and if that server goes down I'm no longer in a community with person 1 or person 2 despite a.com and b.com both being up.
I have a hard time thinking how it would work. For example your comment posted at https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/5907612 posted at "Sunday, December 24th, 2023 at 8:40:09 AM GMT+00:00". If you back up and restore to a new account in 6 months, does your new account get to retroactively repost this comment to December 2023? What about top posts you make?
Individual emails make sense as lone documents but on social media the individual items are only comprehensible in context.
If you just want a record of your individual posts/comments without context you can point an RSS reader at the feed available on your home instance user page. (Lemmy users only; for some reason this feature not available to kbin.)
It’s not a problem with federated platforms, it’s a problem with any new platform.
Anything that’s been around for less than a year is not too likely to stick around for a year.
Something that’s been around for 10 years is likely to stick around for another year.
Time will filter out the instances that stick and the ones that don’t. Users will go to the older instances because those are the ones they can trust to still be up for the foreseeable future.
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 6 months ago
Twitter could go permanently offline tomorrow as well, for all we know.
viking@infosec.pub 6 months ago
I sure hope it does, nobody needs that cesspool.
BluesF@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It is looking increasingly likely that at some point it will just collapse.