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How can I back up a community I mod? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If the instance I started my community on shuts down, then the whole community is gone. Is there anything I can do as a mod to prepare for this so I can transfer everything onto a new instance? Or is everything lost if my instance shuts down?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't answer it but isn't the whole thing backed up (synced) to other instances? If I'm browsing lemmy.world community on my lemm.ee account, I'm actually only fetching data from lemm.ee. Only downside is that if there is an instance started after the community got lost, it will not have that community synced.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Do federated instances keep everything forever from communities someone is subscribed to? Or do they just keep a temporary cache that they can drop after no one has accessed it in a while?