iod

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iod,

so if the server shuts down the content remains available on the web? federation essentially makes a copy? does the url to the post also change?

iod,

i see. although, the content i was referring to werent just my own comments. i meant everything the server holds: the posts and comments on all their communities

the reason why i brought this up were concerns about preservation. often people on reddit have fantastic posts and comments with useful info which can then be rediscovered via search engines years later. on the fediverse on one hand you have more freedom from rogue admins but on the other hand it does carry more risk of the host just disappearing

iod,

so essentially any time a post is created, as many copies of that post will exist as there are instances federating with it?

what if i'm not logged in on my own instance? if the original instance goes away would that post still be discoverable through something like google?

iod,

ah. Didn't realize these were specific to the instance i'm on. i thought this would be just a simple instance list. thank you.

iod,

Is there a limit on the amount of posts or comments one can save? i believe reddit had a limit of 600 and after that they overwrote the oldest one.

iod,

Isn't that what Graze does for Mastodon? Allows you to interact with remote accounts and posts without logging in each time. I imagine Lemmy would need something similar

iod,

If you mean lemmy as the name of the website then yes. All these instances(or servers) create the whole network which lemmy is trying to build. For example you signed up with lemmy.ml, an instance that was created and run by the lemmy devs. This instance has communities(like subreddits) where people can post things. You can sub to these communities and they'll appear in your feed. But other instances like beehaw also have their own communities where people can post, and you can subscribe to those communities too(using your acc here on lemmy.ml, without signing up on beehaw)

lemmy and beehaw have their own list of members and their own admins with their own rules of whats acceptable and not.

When you become more comfortable you'll realize lemmy can also interact with other fediverse software( or websites) like mastodon but for now this is more than enough.

iod,

One thing I don't understand about lemmy, I can see an overall score, but at least on desktop, for some comments I can also see upvote and downvote count separately, but not for all. And the comments are in the same thread. Is this something users control?

iod,

Ah ok. But I meant right next to the buttons.

iod,

My bad, figured it out :) They simply appear when you downvote a comment. If you upvote, the counters don't appear.

iod,

Yep. But I know beehaw doesn't allow downvoting. And being subbed from another instance I can still downvote and it shows up for me

iod,

Try searching simply for "literature" it shows up. for some reason the full fediverse doesnt work for me either

iod,

yep. Topics, tags or whatever else that groups up related communities would be useful. For now this isnt supported but i'd also say while lemmy is still small, subbing to all subs that interest you here and on beehaw should be enough not to miss much imo.

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