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feddit.ch shutting down on 31.03.2024 - Fellow Swiss people, where are you going to go? European instance admins, are you guys all right? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's always sad to see a country-based instance go, they bring together a nice community, and it's an opportunity to learn more about the country.

Maintaining an instance is a lot of work, so this decision definitely makes sense if the admin didn't have the time to take care of it. Hopefully the other instances are still going strong.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately even if you use external hosts, the instances will still keep a copy of the picture locally.

I guess they wanted to avoid losing all pictures in case an image hoster goes bust.