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What happens to the posts and comments made in an instance if that instance shuts down? (lemmy.studio)

submitted 1 year ago by neocamel@lemmy.studio to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do the copies on other instances ever expire and get cleared? Or will they stay indefinitely, without updates?

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Number 2. They will stay without updates unless an admin cleans it manually. It wouldn't be hard to build a bot to do that automatically, but by default it will just stay.