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

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

How often do you revisit forum posts you made in 2007? Some content doesn't need to be preserved

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[–] Jaamulberry@beehaw.org 30 points 3 years ago (4 children)

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 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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[–] Wahots@pawb.social 3 points 3 years ago

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 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

Even if my instance never interacted with that instance?

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

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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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 years ago

Ok, but in that instance, unless that niche instance that disappeared never federated with anyone, then their content is going to be available on the instances they did federate with before they went away, and those will continue to show in google

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[–] capacitor@reddthat.com 5 points 3 years ago

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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[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 3 points 3 years ago

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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