Comment on What happens to my account is the instance I'm using so happens to shut down? Do I lose the account or is there a way to "transfer" it to a different instance.

• NightOwl@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve seen a vlemmy comment show deleted, so I am curious when an instance completely shuts down if comments fade over time to deleted or stay archived and what dictates comments staying or disappearing.

  Like as you mentioned if the admin nukes everything then does everything get deleted and if they don’t then it’s just archived?

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  • Vlyn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Without knowing the actual implementation:

    I’d wager comments are preserved and don’t get cleaned up over time. Because if content gets deleted the instance has to federate the deletion to other instances to clean everything up (like an event system). If the instance just vanishes there would be no deletion request happening.

    If deletion was automatic when an instance goes down we’d have already lost thousands of comments due to the outages lately :)

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    • NightOwl@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Is there vlemmy comments and communities still viewable on other instances? I wonder if that vlemmy user had deleted the comment then before the instance itself went down.

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