this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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That's the best explanation I have been hearing about how this all works, what happens if an instance goes down or disappears? Would all your comments and posts on another instance disappear ? Or does it sort of take a snapshot of it and becomes part of that instance you commented in ?
Instances take snapshots of text and comments from federated posts, but not media links and embeds so that federation won't take up too much storage. The posts from an instance that shut down will still be there but the post becomes "archived" as any new comments or edits cannot be federated.