Ah… dope. So it’s currently just running through donations I presume. Another dumb question: If an instance owner goes rogue and just nukes it are your posts gone too or is it archived somewhere?
every post you make that is seen by at least one other instance other than yours, it saved as a copy on that other instance.
That’s basically how instances communicate with each other, If you as a lemmy.world user go to lemmy.ml, lemmy.world get’s a copy of the content of lemmy.ml. In the same way if you post something direclty on lemmy.world, that post will be included in copys of every other instance viewed lemmy.world after you made that comment.
I think so too, a good feature for the future would be redundancy and third party backups, so people can be held accountable. Or you could back up an instance in your own machine if you want. I thinl this kind of stuff will be developed in time.
Ah… dope. So it’s currently just running through donations I presume. Another dumb question: If an instance owner goes rogue and just nukes it are your posts gone too or is it archived somewhere?
every post you make that is seen by at least one other instance other than yours, it saved as a copy on that other instance.
That’s basically how instances communicate with each other, If you as a lemmy.world user go to lemmy.ml, lemmy.world get’s a copy of the content of lemmy.ml. In the same way if you post something direclty on lemmy.world, that post will be included in copys of every other instance viewed lemmy.world after you made that comment.
I believe your posts on that one instance will be gone but I’m actually unsure. Still learning about it myself
I think so too, a good feature for the future would be redundancy and third party backups, so people can be held accountable. Or you could back up an instance in your own machine if you want. I thinl this kind of stuff will be developed in time.
Technically, anything can be scraped (e.g. Internet Archive), but that doesn’t mean it’s interactive.
I’d say the volatility of computer data means someone could theoretically nuke it whenever they want, though there may be remnants on other instances.
I’m curious enough to enforce Cunningham’s Law: It’s not on blockchain, so it’s deleted if the instance is deleted.