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What happens to the posts and comments made in an instance if that instance shuts down?

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jaamulberry @beehaw.org
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It’s not about visiting a forum post I made in 2007. It’s about visiting a forum post about an obscure issue that someone solved in 2007.

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milkisklim@lemm.ee
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Wahots@pawb.social
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This is so stupidly relevant to strange motherboard problems. I hope that lemmy is able to be scraped by web crawlers to help assist with these sorts of problems in the future.

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Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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That part won’t change. If your current instance was federated with an obscure community/instance before that community/instance disappeared, then you will still have the content from back then and will be able to find the discussion and solution

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jaamulberry @beehaw.org
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Even if my instance never interacted with that instance?

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Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Well no, but then you weren’t going to find it anyway, even if the other instance was still around

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capacitor@reddthat.com
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It would certainly be nice to replace stack overflow with a good Lemmy instance, but have the data guaranteed to remain around.

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Square Singer@feddit.de
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That still works with replication. What won’t work is having any discussion going forward be replicated over all replications. But the replication works fine for archival purpouses.

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