• @janonymous
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    811 months ago

    I thought the content will still be available on the other instances that were federated before the instance went down.

    • Despair
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      611 months ago

      Text is federated between instances while images are hosted on the home instance assuming you didn’t just embed an image from somewhere else like Imgur. I dont believe lemmy hosts any videos, but that might just be an instance admin thing.

    • @egeres
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      511 months ago

      It’s possible I’m wrong!! I’m still learning about the mechanics of the fediverse

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      It is stored on the instance. If the instance goes, the content is gone too.
      I don’t know exactly will something be cached, but even if it is, eventually it will be invalidated too.

    • Franklin
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      111 months ago

      Could we do something like a central ledger for users that an instance could opt in to hosting but still isn’t controlled centrally?