It was a Lemmy service that centered on law. Now it gives a 404.
The threadiverse is starving for small decentralized nodes with a theme focus. There are far too many general purpose nodes. It’s a shame the law node is gone. There is nothing to replace it.
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mvilain@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 2y
I had the same issue with an art focused Mastodon instance that the admin took down. I suppose he didn't want to continue paying for it. It was a pity as it added a lot of lovely artwork to my mastodon feed. It's also why I pay Jerry Bell to keep infosec running and the local mastodon instance.
Evotech@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
What happens to the content then? All poof?
freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 2y
Kind of. Federated nodes would have an incidental mirror of some of the comments. Bits and pieces might be scattered but some or most of it would be totally lost. I can still see the sopuli mirror of one of the communities here: https://sopuli.xyz/c/law@links.esq.social and there is no indication that links.esq.social disappeared. In fact I can still post there as federated nodes give the illusion that it exists.
This is the problem with the Lemmyverse. There is no mechanism to use a pool of nodes to recreate the content. And without an vital sign, people can be posting into a void black hole.
Some chatter about ghost nodes here → https://sopuli.xyz/post/10404719