Checked Fediverse Observer and whole bunch of server has been decommissioned because of which users can’t login and because they can’t login , Lemmy is losing active users. Any plans to fix this ? I am more concerned about the content thats lost.

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    The local copies cease to exist online. Remote copies on other instances stay. There’s a number of communities I subscribed to that no longer exist independently, but which I can still see on my old instance, for example.

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      Are they dependamt on the cache some users actively purge or are they stored indefinitely (assuming they had no interaction beyond a view).

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        I don’t actually know the answer to that one. I’d guess it’s permanent, though. That being said, Lemmy’s been built on a lot since I last looked at the source code.

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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    The content shouldn’t be gone as long as that server was federated with somewhere?

    It will be more difficult to get to IMO - you’ll have to either use a search engine, or query the lemmy resolve object (rs) api method on random instances until you hit one that has the federated content AFAICT.

    Images are definitely lost though unless they’re uploaded to a third party that is still operational

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      Aren’t images propagated to other instances as well? Wasn’t that the issue with the illegal content a couple of months ago where instance owners had to go and purge the images themselves even if it was only posted on one instance?

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        I was under the impression that only thumbnails/lower res copies were federated, rather than the full high-res original - if that’s changed then that’s great 👌

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    The Elder Lord Farzghiqud absorbs the data into his eternal glorious form where it will be analyzed and used for the eventual enslavement of your species.

    All hail Farzghiqud!

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    Each Lemmy instance keeps a copy of posts and contents made in communities followed by its users, so even though an instance is decommissioned, the content lives on on other instance.

    For example my instance was off for a month (I was moving out, setting up my NAS was my last priority) and during this time my posts and comments were still available on other instances.

    As for users unable to login on decommissioned instances, unfortunately all they can do is create an account on another instance.

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      This is a bot spamming this link

      Edit: and according to another comment it contains gore, so click at your own risk

      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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        Yeah it’s grim. I’ve banned and removed the content from the Instance I help Admin but if people can still.see it, report it as it needs to be removed.