Comment on Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down
Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 year agoNo. You would only ever be interacting with a snapshot-at-the-time-of-death of the community on your local instance only. It is the home instance of the community that federates all events, not the instance of the originating post/comment/vote/whathaveyou.
miles@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ah, ok. So if lemmy.world dies, but !somecommunity@lemmy.world was federated to 2 different other instances, those instances wouldn’t be able to “talk to each other”? They’d just have snapshots that they could locally interact with, but never see anything else?
SimplePhysics@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yep, without the source instance, you can’t communicate with other instances.
Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 year ago
Pretty much. I wouldn’t pay much attention to that, though - the absolute majority of the internet that has ever existed is a graveyard.