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> 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 belie
by 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 agoI'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