While I understand the concept of federation I'm unclear as to what it actually entails at a technical level. When lemm.ee eventually shuts down, will all of that user content (posts, comments, votes, etc) cease to exist? Is it mirrored on other instances?

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[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 58 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

They will still be visible to federated instances as they have a local copy. But any new posts or comments will not federate.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 35 points 3 weeks ago

And any new instance will not have a copy.

[–] artifex@lemmy.zip 22 points 3 weeks ago

Ah that makes sense. So federation implies copying essentially, and not merely linking. Thanks!

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, there won't be any new posts, so that's not all that much of a problem in the end.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can actually make a new post on an instance that has closed, you can also reply to posts on a closed instance

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

https://lemmy.world/c/moviesandtv@lemmy.film

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nothing I was ever subscribed to, and why not post a direct link to the community?

I just made a post and a comment on a community on a closed instance. Both went through okay, but will never federate.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

That instance went down a while back, so posting a link to the community wouldn't work.

LW users can still make posts there, but they would indeed not federate.

I was just providing an example so that people could see what it would look like