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

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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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jaamulberry @beehaw.org
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I would argue the instance still gets indexed by Google and if it was around I could Google search for the result.

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