This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

Original Announcement thread

  • irdc@derp.foo
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    1 year ago

    With instances already disappearing (eg. vlemmy), content is being lost. Are you considering a lemmy archive?

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPM
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      1 year ago

      For communities that have been federated, their historical data, posts, comments, etc should still be available on other instances. So in a sense they’re already archived.

      Besides that, we have a backup / restore guide on the join-lemmy docs that show how to backup your DB, which every server should be doing.

    • nutomic@lemmy.mlM
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      1 year ago

      Every instance automatically archives content from other instances that it federates with (though this doesnt include images). An archive sounds like a good idea, but we certainly dont have the capacity to take on another project. It would have to be done by someone from the community.