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If someone deletes an instance, is your content gone? Can one join many instances and, if so, does that mean what you post in one instance is not seen on others

If someone deletes an instance, is your content gone? Can one join many instances and, if so, does that mean what you post in one instance is not seen on others? Or does everything you do show up on your profile? >As mentioned, the great thing about the fediverse is that all of these services are connected with each other. If I signed up for an account on a mastodon instance, I can subscribe to your posts on Pixelfed, and vice versa. This part confused me a bit. Can anyone ELI5?

garritfra 6y ago
> If someone deletes an instance, is your content gone? No. As long as another instance knew about your posts, that data is preserved on that instance. I believe you can file a deletion for those posts, but don't quote me on that. A recent example is the deletion of Drew DeVault's instance cmpwn.org. His web presence is gone, but I can still see his posts from my instance (fosstodon.org). > This part confused me a bit. Can anyone ELI5? Imagine having a twitter account and following your friend on instagram. Their posts will show up on your twitter-timeline, and you can like, comment and share them on twitter.
- Kototama 6y ago
  > A recent example is the deletion of Drew DeVault's instance cmpwn.org. Was there a justification?
  - j-james 6y ago
    I'd imagine that was a personal instance with him as the only user, which seems to be a fairly common practice.
- grep_name 6y ago
  > A recent example is the deletion of Drew DeVault's instance cmpwn.org Interesting, what happened with this? I follow him on mastodon, but I haven't been on in a few months because even my heavily curated feed has become a political quagmire a bit too reminiscent of twitter
scambier 6y ago
> Can one join many instances and, if so, does that mean what you post in one instance is not seen on others? Or does everything you do show up on your profile? You can be registered on different instances, but they're all different accounts. The Fediverse "only" allows instances to share content with each other. > This part confused me a bit. Can anyone ELI5? If Mastodon instances A and B are connected through the Fediverse, you can _read_ content posted on B if you're registered on A. The best analogy I've seen is to consider Fediverse servers like e-mail servers. You can post an e-mail from a server only if you have an account on it, but you can receive e-mails from any server.

garritfra 6y ago

> If someone deletes an instance, is your content gone? No. As long as another instance knew about your posts, that data is preserved on that instance. I believe you can file a deletion for those posts, but don't quote me on that. A recent example is the deletion of Drew DeVault's instance cmpwn.org. His web presence is gone, but I can still see his posts from my instance (fosstodon.org). > This part confused me a bit. Can anyone ELI5? Imagine having a twitter account and following your friend on instagram. Their posts will show up on your twitter-timeline, and you can like, comment and share them on twitter.

Kototama 6y ago
> A recent example is the deletion of Drew DeVault's instance cmpwn.org. Was there a justification?
- j-james 6y ago
  I'd imagine that was a personal instance with him as the only user, which seems to be a fairly common practice.
grep_name 6y ago
> A recent example is the deletion of Drew DeVault's instance cmpwn.org Interesting, what happened with this? I follow him on mastodon, but I haven't been on in a few months because even my heavily curated feed has become a political quagmire a bit too reminiscent of twitter

scambier 6y ago

> Can one join many instances and, if so, does that mean what you post in one instance is not seen on others? Or does everything you do show up on your profile? You can be registered on different instances, but they're all different accounts. The Fediverse "only" allows instances to share content with each other. > This part confused me a bit. Can anyone ELI5? If Mastodon instances A and B are connected through the Fediverse, you can _read_ content posted on B if you're registered on A. The best analogy I've seen is to consider Fediverse servers like e-mail servers. You can post an e-mail from a server only if you have an account on it, but you can receive e-mails from any server.