Isn’t the fediverse fragile long-term wise from a structural point of view? I have this feeling that a ton of small lemmy instances will die over the years taking content away (I don’t expect this will happen with lemmy.world). Is this something that could happen? Will it be a problem?
One way to deal with it is to add an easy way to transfer users and posts from one instance to another. I’m pretty sure there are tickets about it, but I don’t know what’s the status of it.
I thought the content will still be available on the other instances that were federated before the instance went down.
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.Could we do something like a central ledger for users that an instance could opt in to hosting but still isn’t controlled centrally?
Representing the quorum in some kind of logical chain of consensus-derived blocks, you say?
You have now became a digital ronin.
Edit: I mean this one isn’t gone forever, they’re just gonna have to get a new domain. I’m guessing it’s Vlemmy like someone else already said.
They say that. But lemmy/the fediverse really doesn’t allow domain name changes…
Lemmy guess, vlemmy?
Out of the loop, what happened to vlemmy?
Actual answer:
The admin just kinda wiped everything without any announcement. Shut down donation links and all. As far as I’ve heard nobody ever figured out why.
must have been the one seized by the FBI for CSAM that I was hearing about—but don’t quote me on that
Are you thinking of the mastodon based Kolektiva.social? The server hosting it was apparently seized by the FBI for an unrelated raid on the owner of the instance. There wasn’t anything related to CSAM in that situation though
