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.
So if a brand new instance is started, it does not retroactively receive any content from other servers. Only ones that were connected by a link at the time content was posted will have a copy, essentially.
To know which posts will be kept on different servers, look up your own username, e.g. https://lemmy.ca/u/[email protected]