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What happens if an instance is deleted to its communities and users?
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I run my own instance and I can reply, make new posts, and even moderate communities on any instance I follow, and that doesn’t block me instance from joining. The only thing I cannot do is create communities on other instances.
So when lemmy.ml went down do to server load I had no idea until i clicked a direct link to it. I could still see my copies of their communities.
It’s more like my account won’t ever be deleted if the sever I signed up on goes away.
It will be interesting to see what happens as large instances grow and how they deal with storage and bandwidth. Any media a user uploads anywhere is hosted on their main instance. Self hosting also puts me in control of my upload media.