Are the registry procedures causing the problem? Since most of my communities are on lemmy.ml, wouldn’t I still be using lemmy.lm’s bandwidth? Or is it more crucial to ensure that the communities are distributed more evenly across different instances?

  • bdonvr@lemmy.rogers-net.com
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    1 year ago

    It doesn’t really. I’m viewing this post from my instance, which has saved a copy of this post from lemmy.ml

    Me viewing this post doesn’t hit lemmy.ml at all, although making this comment will.

    • wia
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      1 year ago

      Ah, I misunderstood then.

      What happens if lemmy.ml is down?

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        1 year ago

        All the users and communities registered there will cease being able to connect to the rest of the network, but the data should still be cached on all the other servers.

        • tiwenty@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          The keyword is “cache”. Lemmy doesn’t guarantee the cache, so if an instance X would go down permanently, you would eventually lose this data.

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            1 year ago

            My presumption was that with over 200 instances, maybe over 1000 in the near future, all the old data should be collectable in theory without loss. But you’re right, there’s no guarantee of this.

      • bdonvr@lemmy.rogers-net.com
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        1 year ago

        Media from users of lemmy.ml won’t load. You wouldn’t be able to subscribe to communities on lemmy.ml. But I think every other instance would show cached data and hold any new comments/posts/votes to sync when lemmy.ml comes back up. I’m not sure how long that cache is kept.