My home instance is shutting down soon.

https://lemm.ee/post/65824884.

I am slightly unclear about what the instance admin meant.

Because of how Lemmy is built, everything posted on lemm.ee will still be accessible from other instances, even after we go offline.

How are other Lemmy instance able to access the content from the post-shutdown lemm.ee?

Do all the other Lemmy instances keep a copy of the content from lemm.ee?

If so, wouldn’t that be rather taxing on each Lemmy instance? (since they have to keep a copy of all the content from all instances they federate with).

I tried reading this up by researching on Lemmy federation, but this is still unclear to me.

  • TrivialKin@lemm.eeOPEnglish
    18·
    21 hours ago

    nobody outside of your instance will see anything you post there

    So you are saying that if let’s say a user from lemmy.world makes a post to the post-shutdown lemm.ee community, only users within lemmy.world can see the content? Did I understand that correctly? Basically each instance has a "copy of lemm.ee's community, and lemm.ee` is acting as the main distributor of events between these “isolated communities”.

    Is there any indication for the lemmy.world people to notice that the instance hosting the community is gone? Wouldn’t there be cases where users continue posting to a community who’s instances have shutdown, without realizing that they are not visible outside?

    • simple@piefed.socialEnglish
      23·
      21 hours ago

      Exactly, yes.

      Is there any indication for the lemmy.world people to notice that the instance hosting the community is gone?

      I don’t think there is but I remember the lemmy devs saying they’ll add a warning at some point when a community can’t be reached.