If a server were to be shutdown(lack of financing or any other reason) would all the content posted there be lost too?
Is there anything the admins do or can do to prevent this? Any Mastodon instance featured on the main webpage for example offers a guarantee to at least warn users months before the shutdown.
Could the content be perhaps moved to another server like mastodon people can move over their followers?
Anything you see on your instance is locally copied. So if the original instance goes away, you still have your copy of the content.
so essentially any time a post is created, as many copies of that post will exist as there are instances federating with it?
what if i’m not logged in on my own instance? if the original instance goes away would that post still be discoverable through something like google?