What happens when a server/instance "dies"?
What happens when a server/instance "dies"?
If a server decides to cease to exist, does all the user data go down with it? I'm guessing so, along with a all comments/post/communities made from that instance and only cached data will remain.
Anyone have an idea on this?
It is just as you said. As an example you can look at heapoverflow.ml which got domain high jacked. It is down but the content is still available on other instances:
That's cool! Not that the domain got hijacked, but the fact that the content is still available on other instances. This is brilliant and shows you the benefits of federation VS centralization.
I didn't know heapoverflow's domain got hijacked, do you perhaps know more ? and if they got a new domain ?
Here the admin did announce it: https://lemmy.ml/post/741881
I do not know what happens with a new domain. It is probably as if it was a brand new instance.
EDIT: maybe @[email protected] can tell you more
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