What happens if an Fediverse instance goes down?
What happens if an Fediverse instance goes down?
Can other instances "back it up" so that the posts submitted to the instances aren't lost?
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Anything pushed to the "fediverse", if you will, can't be lost (except for images and other media). It's just that once an instance goes down, that instance isn't available anymore to push out new updates. So if someone replies to a post or comment that belongs to a community that "no longer exists", then that reply will only exist on the server of the user who posted it.
So a bit like a netsplit in the IRC days. Yes I'm aware IRC is still alive and kicking. 😄
A net split in the EFNet days ;)
Man, why don’t we do IRC anymore? It was like the OG federated service…
I'm still on irc, efnet. ;)
We still do sometimes. You’d be surprised by how many IRC channels still exist.