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?

  • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days 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