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.
Will images uploaded to lemm.ee be federated with the other Lemmy servers, or will they be permanently deleted?
I’ve heard conflicting answers to this question, and I’d like to get a definite answer.
afaik those get deleted. However there shouldn’t be many images uploaded to that server specifically because the instance admins were really hesitant about ever opening image uploads much. They often advocated for using another 3rd party for image hosting.
It’s conflicting because it depends™. By default Lemmy is configured to mirror images by remote instances so as to not overwhelm them with traffic. But most instances turn that off because of the storage cost.