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I'm concerned about the preservation of data. People very often return to old forum posts for research purposes; however, it is of no use if old content is purged. Is there a plan in place for this issue?

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[–] CampfireParade 1 points 2 years ago

Hey, hey. I spent some more time reading about this and I had it wrong - I thought Lemmy federated users, but instead it does federate some data across instances. As ronnypopiel stated, text content will federate across instances while other media is shared as links to the original instance.

Getting Started with Federation; Federation for Contributors; Another discussion on this topic on kBin