I imagine users go poof. Are their profiles stored in other federated instances? Is there a way to recover them or “import from backup” onto another instance?

If they don’t have an e-mail I imagine you can’t even notify them or authenticate them elsewhere so this “import from backup” even if technically feasible (idk if it is) would be impossible in practice due to authentication issues.

And communities, can you even notify all your subscribers to move to the “backup community” on another instance? I saw yesterday that a Mastodon server host said “I’m deleting this instance in 2 days” or something like that and I started wondering how shit would go on Lemmy.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hive is a pretty funny name because there are two Hive networks with social features that have absolutely nothing to do with each other. I’m going to assume you’re talking about the cryptocurrency based system.

    You can post and subscribe from your own Lemmy/Kbin perfectly fine, by the way. I’m on my own server and I’ve only created a single community (for a theoretical blog). What you do to follow a community on another service is search for !community@server.com (maybe wait a sec or search again if it doesn’t show up) and then you can join no problem.