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this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2023
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Go to the bottom of any page and there by the link to the modlog is a link “Instances”. That’s a long list of all instances that server is federated or defederated with. (It’s actually kind of disturbing how many federated instances there are that don’t seem to be active - possibly just slurping data? But that’s a different story).
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Many of the inactive instances are probably from people who tried self hosting and then gave up. Just my theory.
Yep. Small ones that still hosted communities also had a high attrition rate - I was in some of them.
I'm sure. I don't know what the software does if an instance is active for a few days, then goes offline and doesn't come back. It stays on the federation list, i presume? Probably a fair amount are also personal instances with 2-3 accounts.
I'm pretty sure it sticks around forever, I clicked on a few without "software" or "verison" filled in at random and most 404'd or 503'd.
That makes sense. We wouldn't want the content to be deleted. I've seen there are a few communities where the original instance is now not functioning, but the content remains on this instance.
Exactly. I wouldn't want to lose !moviesandtv@lemmy.film even if we can effectively no longer post. For archival reasons.