I’m concerned about the preservation of data. People very often return to old forum posts for research purposes; however, it is of no use if old content is purged. Is there a plan in place for this issue?
I’m concerned about the preservation of data. People very often return to old forum posts for research purposes; however, it is of no use if old content is purged. Is there a plan in place for this issue?
Not quite. The data isn’t directly copie. Imagine that a shortcut is created that links to the original instance the data was posted to in the first place.
Federation means that your account on one instance allows you to connect to and browse content on other instances, without signing into the other instances. The instances are “federated” with each other, which means that they trust the accounts on those other instances.
This contradicts what was said in the previous comment:
This, to me, sounds like a physical copy, and not merely a link.
Hey, hey. I spent some more time reading about this and I had it wrong - I thought Lemmy federated users, but instead it does federate some data across instances. As ronnypopiel stated, text content will federate across instances while other media is shared as links to the original instance.
Getting Started with Federation; Federation for Contributors; Another discussion on this topic on kBin