When I first new about lemmy, lemm.ee was among the biggest and I created an account on it but didn’t use it much and didn’t knew that the instance was deleted until recently. So help me understand where content is stored:
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When a post is created, is it only stored on the original instance, or copied to every other one?
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Do all federated servers get a copy, or get posts from other server when user demands them?
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When an instance shuts down, is its content gone forever, or do other instances keep copies?
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If the original server is gone, what happens to edits or deletions?
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Is there any kind of “shared” storage in the Fediverse, or network that store everything?
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Could one still access all lemm.ee content now? Or post in it’s communities?
[図書館]^（としょかん）
Since I don’t understand whatever Asian text I accidentally pasted, I have no idea what these upvotes are for.
Sometimes deletions don’t federate to every instance, and this is one of those cases.
Edit to add: Apparently it’s Japanese for library.
I was trying to test out a little-known markdown-it-ruby feature: 図書館
As someone regularly uses Japanese and sometimes uses node.js, this is a handy library to know about! Cheers!
Does the official Lemmy source code actually delete data when a delete activity comes in or does it just stop displaying it? Just curious.
We know they don’t get deleted because otherwise the undelete feature wouldn’t work.