• miles@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    meaning you could read my reply on a community that basically no longer exists

    oh really? does it actually work this way? if lemmy.world dies, can all its communities continue to live on as long as there are lemmy instances out there federated and subscribed?

    • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      10·
      2 years ago

      No. You would only ever be interacting with a snapshot-at-the-time-of-death of the community on your local instance only. It is the home instance of the community that federates all events, not the instance of the originating post/comment/vote/whathaveyou.

      • miles@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Ah, ok. So if lemmy.world dies, but [email protected] was federated to 2 different other instances, those instances wouldn’t be able to “talk to each other”? They’d just have snapshots that they could locally interact with, but never see anything else? So is the fate of the Lemmyverse a graveyard of communities from dead instances?

        • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Pretty much. I wouldn’t pay much attention to that, though - the absolute majority of the internet that has ever existed is a graveyard.