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What happens when instances die off, would their comments be deleted and you’d have threads with half conversations everywhere?
I believe once a post or comment is federated it will continue to stay even if the instance it came from is no longer in service. instances are not “streaming” the data to each other, they send copies and store it in their own dbs. So this comment right here will have a bunch copies out there on other instances.
With Lemmy I'm not actually sure. I would imagine that you would be correct. But knowledge is ephemeral and needs to be kept some other way. I think that's a better choice than some platform that's shutting down and selling all their data to someone else. Deleting something on Reddit or Twitter or FB doesn't actually delete it. It's still in the servers, it's just not publicly accessible anymore. I'm a massive cynic though, which is why I've been on the Fedi for a few years already. :-D