• BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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    If it’s just a temporary outage, whatever the mirror has received prior to the outage will be shown to users on that other instance but only local interactions for that instance will update it, when it comes back up, things like votes and comments will be synchronized again across all of the instances.

    For permanent outages, the community will just need to be started again on a new instance.

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      1 year ago

      But they could pick up where the now defunct community left off, right? Like, the cached copy from another server could be imported on a new server elsewhere?

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        That functionality doesn’t currently exist, but migration of communities is something that’s being actively talked about for development.

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      Reading this and trying to visualize the big picture, I think this is where kbin’s magazine is going to win out in the end

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          Ok, from what I understand now, a magazine can follow tags or keywords, which will populate the magazine. So no matter where in the fediverse something is posted, it will show up in the magazine.

          But then if the instance hosting the magazine goes down YEAH OK I GET IT NOW