I guess my point is that historic data won’t cease to exist unless all the federated instances deleted the data or also shut down. And links would only be broken if you are access the data via lemm.ee. But if you’re accessing data via one of the federated instance’s APIs, I think you should be good? But I’m still relatively new to all this federation so I would appreciate if someone smarter than me chimed in.
Sorry this might be obvious, but even if an instance disappeared with all its communities, wouldn’t those communities and their content still exist as copies to other federated instances? My understanding is federation means I’m going to copy all of your content to my instance. So I’m assuming that means even if your instance stops existing, all those copies on my instance still exist. Or am I missing something?
I’ve only been on Lemmy for a year, but this feels pretty significant. How do we prevent this from happening to other instances? Or do we not see it as a huge problem if we assume most active users will migrate to other Lemmy instances?
Also side note, I think Voyager defaults to lemm.ee.
The passion of Christ. It’s just a bunch of muppets killing Jesus
I’m sure it’s not to the same extent, but I feel like US does the same thing just not as directly. Like the fact that they can triangulate my position at any moment in time with cell tower data.
I’m gen z - though on the older side - and I remember using these
Is that a positive or native opinion of PieFed? I’m genuinely curious since I’ve never really scrolled through PieFed
I guess I’m in a very narrow window of people who are gen z but born last century
Just to make some of you feel older, I’m gen z and I’m 26
It has taken off exponentially. It’s exponentially annoying that’s it’s being added to literally everything
There are always going to be bad people, but Lemmy will always be decentralized unlike Reddit. Technically you could spin up a new instance that doesn’t federate with the instances you are trying to avoid.
Wow wow. The saying is “you’ll never work a day in your life,” not that you’ll be financially stable.
There are captchas but I suppose you could work around that easily by having a human sign up and offloading the account to a bot. If it really became a problem I’m sure Lemmy could adapt, but it could involve similar fingerprinting techniques to Reddit. Lemmy being petty privacy conscious would likely hate that. But I say we solve one problem at a time. Bots aren’t an issue yet.
Future isn’t bleak on Lemmy! Hopefully this just pushes more people off Reddit. People deserve better
You’re confusing me. I’m just gonna ask ChatGPT.