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If the instance I started my community on shuts down, then the whole community is gone. Is there anything I can do as a mod to prepare for this so I can transfer everything onto a new instance? Or is everything lost if my instance shuts down?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Setup your own instance (don't even need to allow other members), create the community there. Then just create some alt accounts on other instances that you think would be interested in your community. Subscribe to your community from those instances to at least get your stuff to appear. Than hope for the best.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh so that will push the content to the ALL feed on the other instances right?

[โ€“] shrugal 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. Instances only get updates from external communities if at least one user of that instance is subscribed to the community, and that's how instances populate their All feed.