What happens when an instance shuts down. Can the spaces/subreddits whatver they are called be recreated? If so, how?

  • jamin@lemmy.zipOP
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    10 hours ago

    I mean are the posts in any way recreatable because they are also saved on other instances when accessed from there right? Of course you can create another community with the same topic :D

    • CameronDev@programming.dev
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      8 hours ago

      I don’t believe there is a way to transfer posts. You could probably create a bot that scrapes and recreates them, but all the original users would be lost. Best to just start from scratch, nothing here needs to be permanent anyway.

    • sexy_animal_fucker@kbin.melroy.org
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      9 hours ago

      Without a self destruct cleanup the posts and data will likely remain in the caches of other instances but the account is effectively gone for the original user