Comment on Instance freezing as an alternative to full shut down

null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

There are projects that will just scrape the whole site. Some of these are used as a build step in producing static sites even.

A static version wouldn’t work with any clients of any kind of course. It would be browser-based with the default or whatever frontend you scraped it with.

I’m not necessarily opposed to this idea. However… and I understand that this opinion is not widely held among lemmy users… IMO the best approach is to just embrace the transience of the fediverse - that’s it’s strength. Instances are easy come easy go. Have multiple accounts on multiple instances and change them according to your mood.

When instance admins choose to move on, they’re not letting us down or whatever. They’ve completed their part of the mission and handing over to someone else.

I don’t know what communities there are on lemm.ee which are about to be discontinued. There might be some that want to keep their content available, but maybe that’s better managed on a community level.

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