Maintaining an instance is a lot of work, so this decision definitely makes sense if the admin didn't have the time to take care of it. Hopefully the other instances are still going strong.

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[–] cloudless@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (6 children)

I keep hearing that it doesn't matter which instance you join because of federation.

But it does matter when some instances lack the resources to stay alive. The biggest loss would be the content hosted on the instance.

[–] ichbean@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The content will not be lost, because each federated instance keeps its own copy.

[–] cloudless@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I believe images are only hosted on the original instance.

For example if you browse this post on lemmy.world:

https://lemmy.world/post/13015119

Respective images are shown directly from the original instances, for example: https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/c7285a60-c7ee-4013-8d96-6c13a541c2f0.jpeg

For text posts, I understand that they are copied across instances. But will they remain visible when an instance is completely removed?

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