• BKLronin@waveform.socialOP
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    I mean its in your hands. You could just close the server in two weeks because reasons and it all has to start from scratch.

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      No that’s the beauty of it. That entire community will have been copied onto other servers that subscribe to ours. So it doesn’t rely on our instance.

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        Not completely true, I think :( I think you’re right posts work that way, but not as far as I know users, and anyhow the point of a user is the ability to post. Your domain still holds all the waveform.social accounts, so if you shut down the domains, all the users become unusable. I would very much like to see this problem fixed…!

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          It does, and a lot of Fediverse servers shut down after about two months once the admins realize how much data storage they’re committing to!

          It’s not like every server backs up everything, though. A server only backs up activities performed by actors that are least one actor on the server is subscribed to.

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          On the one hand, yeah you’re right. But large social media actually work the same way. Reddit will run hundreds of servers and keep a copy of the data on every server. It’s one of the easiest ways to scale. Except with Federation, it’s not a single company running those servers.

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            I guess the only true way to be certain of things in the federated world is to run your own instance and connect to other instances. Ultimately I do plan to do this with a few things, primarily moving myself off Mastodon.social and onto my own self-install on my own domain, the goal being that I’d have no other users beyond accounts for each of my music monikers and a ‘personal’ one. I’d love to have a books.mydomain.com instance of BookWyrm too if I can muster the enthusiasm to set it up.

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              Of course, you can, in theory, also sign up to an instance and then move to another instance. I know there are guides for this portability when it comes to Mastodon, but not sure how it works for things like Lemmy and BookWyrm.

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        Oh lol yeah, if its not deleted in a privacy concern it must be still available in the fedi.

        Got it. Pretty cool actually.