After seeing what happend on r/antiwork over at Reddit. Does Lemmy have a way to prevent somthing similar, like could another instance decide to preserve a deleted community and not have a single point of failure?
The same question can be asked if an instance suddenly closes down, can other instances keep the communities alive?
The admins have the ability to and reserve the right to appoint a new head mod to any community on their local instance. We actually do it semi often on Lemmy.ml, you can request to become the mod of a community if it has no mods, or all the mods have been inactive for several months.
If an instance goes down, then pretty all much all data on that server will not be accessible. So the communities, posts and users on that instance will be gone.
Maybe lemmy can implement something similar to the matrix protocol.
Matrix is really a decentralised conversation store rather than a messaging protocol. When you send a message in Matrix, it is replicated over all the servers whose users are participating in a given conversation - similarly to how commits are replicated between Git repositories. There is no single point of control or failure in a Matrix conversation which spans multiple servers:
So a community will remain accessible even if the homeserver goes down
If an instance goes down, then pretty all much all data on that server will not be accessible.
Also wanna add, that if any servers have been federating with communities that live on a dead server, they will still have a backup of all those pushed posts and comments ( which starts happening immediately after one person subscribes to that remote community).
Removed by mod
yep that is a problem.
Removed by mod
Removed by mod
Some more relevant discussion: https://lemmy.ml/post/161629
title of that post :
“Thoughts on r/antiwork drama and implications for Lemmy” by Yogthos
2022-01-26 /29 comments so far
