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Can other instances "back it up" so that the posts submitted to the instances aren't lost?

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[–] TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Based on what we saw when beehaw de-federated from lemmy.world, communities still exist on all remote servers that previously saw it, including any posts that were already there.

The only unknown is if those communities will exist indefinitely. I don't think there is currently any mechanism for cleaning up instance data but there might be in the future. It would be a good idea to have that as an explicit option for admins.

[–] RxBrad@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

beehaw de-federated from lemmy.world

What's the deal with that? Is this the part where I learn that I'm a giant racist simply for being on this instance?

[–] lp0101@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Nah, Beehaw just had only 4 admins for the entire website and enforced pretty strong hugbox rules, so they quickly got overwhelmed by the larger instances and defederated.

[–] spiritedpause@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

hugbox (slang, derogatory) An environment or thing which validates or reinforces a limited set of feelings or ideas.

First time I've seen that term used, and it's a great way to describe what websites like beehaw are haha. They're free to moderate their community as they see fit, just saying that's an accurate way to describe their community values.

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