Trying to wrap my head around the fediverse. Is each instance like another person with a server? Could that person just shut it down whenever they wanted to?
Are there any companies that have invested in hosting Lemmy/ other fediverse servers?
Sorry I’m sure I messed up some of the terminology, I hope my questions make sense! I love the idea of the fediverse as I understand it, but I like to dig into these details.
it would mean shutting down that one particular instance only, all of the other instances would still be trucking along – whereas if the service-formerly-known-as-Twitter shuts down, everything on there is completely gone
in the case of Mastodon instances, if you get a heads-up that something is happening, you can migrate your account (and posts) to another instance – AFAIK that’s still in the works for Lemmy
Pretty sure account migration is now in Lemmy also.