I have been thinking about it for some time and I’m concerned that if a big instance like lemmy.ml goes down does the content hosted on lemmy.ml will be deleted too or a copy of the content will be available on other instances?

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    1 year ago

    and what happens when the home instance comes back online? Do the posts on the local instances sync?

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        1 year ago

        and all the posts that were made in the other instances will be added to the home instance, which will then pass it along to all the other instances? interesting.

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          1 year ago

          that’s quite literally what happened here on kbin at least. we had some old posts from lemmy instances before the influx of people happened and defederation stopped. the subs were “dead” and didn’t update from others. once federation started up again, everything got synced/updated. I imagine the same would happen if the host instance went down for whatever reason.