• fubo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The posts and comments that you have written remain replicated on whatever instances picked them up.

    You no longer have any control over them, though.

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      1 year ago

      Well it’s good to know that not everything will be lost.

      BRB, creating an account on every instance I can find.

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      1 year ago

      That’s the case when an instance just straight up shuts down, right?

      But if a user deletes their comment this also gets propagated to other instances. Do instance admins have a nuke button to initiate a delete for all content?

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        1 year ago

        I am curious when an instance completely shuts down if comments fade over time to deleted or stay archived and what dictates comments staying or disappearing.

        When I looked in my inbox of all replies I saw a vlemmy comment, which showed deleted. I had replied to it too, but that getting deleted made my response not be publicly visible. Only searched it out because was in a comment in a thread where I asked from anime recommendations and had started watching their recommendation then wondered where the comment had gone.

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          1 year ago

          Without knowing the actual implementation:

          I’d wager comments are preserved and don’t get cleaned up over time. Because if content gets deleted the instance has to federate the deletion to other instances to clean everything up (like an event system). If the instance just vanishes there would be no deletion request happening.

          If deletion was automatic when an instance goes down we’d have already lost thousands of comments due to the outages lately :)

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            1 year ago

            Is there vlemmy comments and communities still viewable on other instances? I wonder if that vlemmy user had deleted the comment then before the instance itself went down.