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I’m really curious because I’m new to this fediverse thing, and I wanted to know if different instances are on a peer-to-peer which could save everything no matter what happens to one instance.

  • Otome-chan@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    when you federate with an instance you get copies of the post. with mastodon you could download your data and move to another instance, and i have to imagine that feature is on the roadmap for kbin as well (but kbin is still very new so not yet).

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      1 year ago

      You can download your data/posts and move to another instance, but you can not upload your posts to that instance, you can import who you follow and blocklists I think and your followers get migrated automatically.

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        1 year ago

        But if someone like your post, this post will be on this other instance is that right? (from what I understood)

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          1 year ago

          Not just likes. Any post a user from another instances sees from you, is also stored on their instance. But I don’t think it’s stored indefinitely and it’s also not stored in a way you can make use of. So if the server your account is stored on explodes, technically there are still a lot of your posts stored all over the fediverse’s servers, but there’s no feature that would allow you as the (former) account owner to ask for them or easily collect them.