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Welcome reddit refugees! (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by immadeofgold to c/lemmyworld

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[–] JohnQuincyKerbal 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can anyone run a server? If our account is pinned to one server and that server shuts down, I assume we lose all our account info/history?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

As far as I know, anyone can install the open source packages and run a server (don't quote me on this, I'm very new to the platform). I assume your info would be lost, but idk. Maybe it's decentralised across mirrors like a torrent? Idk if it is, but it should be if it isn't...

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

Yes, anyone can run an instance.
If your accounts home server/instance shuts down, the account is lost. But your posts and comments should still be on other server. If I understand federation correctly, each instance keeps copies of the posts and comments from instances it federates with.