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With lemmy.film down, where should we host the new movies community?
(discuss.tchncs.de)
A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.
Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".
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Sadly this once again shows that Lemmy is too fragile. The content is now gone, forever. This is not good and I want to see a feature that we can preserve content. What if a big instance disappears for some unfortunate circumstance? Like the whole instance owner team died in a plane accident and suddenly you have thousands of posts and content disappear. Lemmy isn't build by a huge company that will have decentralized solutions, backups and emergency access.
Are you sure the content is gone? I assume the communities had users from other servers, if so isn't the content replicated on other servers?
I can't access it. It loads infinitely.
You're 100% right, I think we do a lot more to stop content rotting like this. Now it's half gone, with any contributions from other instances unable to federate, fracturing any more conversation.
Maybe we need to do two things:
The migration one is tricky, because ActivityPub is very tied to urls. I guess that you could make dummy account for the conversation you brought over, so you'd at least have a read-only record.