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What are some downsides of software being federated? (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[โ€“] 10 points 3 years ago (3 children)

You have to run and maintain several instances. What if one instance goes down forever?

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Then all of its content was already synced to the other instances. And, you technically can re-activate the down instance's communities on another instance, if needed.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I didn't knew that content was cached on other instances. Wdym by re-activate? Can you migrate the community and its contents unchanged into another instance?

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 3 years ago

    Everything on lemmy is synced (federated) to all other subscribing instances.

    That is how i am currently reading/commenting on this post. I am interacting with the synced copy of the post and comments which was sent to my instance. As well- you are interacting with the copy which was sent to your instance.

    I could technically flip a few values in the database and tell my instance that this is a local community, and I would then be able to manage it as such.

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