Hi everyone. Obligatory I’m enjoying my time here.
Looking at some other discussions about Reddit and what happens to the trove of knowledge when/if it all disappears.
My main question is, if, for example, beehaw decided it wasn’t worth it to keep going and shut their server down, is that the end of just their “subs” or do all of their users and their comments disappear across the whole fediverse?
This is a new town and we’re all still deciding where the houses and streets should go.
What you’re saying seems to be, “If this particular street doesn’t happen, does that mean the whole town is just chaos and nonsense and we should all run off elsewhere?”
No, it doesn’t. It doesn’t even mean anyone else has to tear their house down and flounder in the dirt waiting for consensus.
It just means the people involved renegotiate things and figure something else out.
I don’t think that’s what OP is asking, I feel like it’s more of a straightforward technical question. As in, if an instance is killed, what happens to the data “owned” by that instance?
Edit: Specifically, the users tied to that instance
