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User accounts if a Lemmy Server goes Away. (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Fordry to c/lemmyworld

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What happens to the accounts that signed up on that server? For instance, if lemmy.world drops what happens to all it's users?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

needs

migration tool
self-backup tool
admin backup validation and public backup verification
?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

++ federation replication integrity tools, back-fill tools

Example from yesterday, comparing different instances on which comments actually made it to peer instances:

https://lemmy.ml/post/1239920 has 19 comments (community home)
https://lemmy.pro/post/1354 has 1 comment
https://sh.itjust.works/post/74015 has 9 comments
https://lemmy.world/post/103943 has 9 comments
https://programming.dev/post/29631 has 13 comments
https://beehaw.org/post/536574 has 7 comments
https://lemmy.haigner.me/post/8 has 6 comments (posting originated with user there)

Issue opened on Github: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3101

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Pretty much this.

Mastodon had similar issues for a long while, but as it's more mature than lemmy, export features now exist. Posts from a dead instance will exist on federated instances, but I think the biggest issue would be losing on what communities you subscribe to.