Yeah, that makes sense. I think I responded to "if the worst happens" as some kind of Terrible Doom.

If you don't wanna lose data, just back it up.

If you're very attached to the specific affiliations you see forming here this week, you're gonna get wrecked; this is all experimental and everything should be in flux.

If you wanna know what's going to happen with this whole general swath of Internet ... nobody knows yet, keep working on making your bit of it better.

Well the host of that instance would still have the data but most of the time I'm sure they'd just delete it to save space so posts and accounts would be gone forever

Thank you yes. That was sort of my question. I didn't know if any data is pushed to any other instances as a redundancy or a backup. I only used beehaw as an example since its fresh in everyone's mind.