I'm less concerned with the technical aspects and more curious about the long term.
Federated instances, such as lemmy.world, are operated by individuals; What happens if they decide to stop doing so without handing the server/data off to someone else?
Do all of our accounts created here disappear?
What do other users see if they click through my profile from a post on a different federated server?
What happens to all of the content created on the server in question?
Professional game dev for 25 years now. Started modding and level design back in the days of DOOM/Quake, which eventually led to a job in the industry.
I'm a designer primarily, but I also do quite a bit of engineering. I've worked mostly with heavily modified Source engine and, most recently, Unreal.
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I'm less concerned with the technical aspects and more curious about the long term.
Federated instances, such as lemmy.world, are operated by individuals; What happens if they decide to stop doing so without handing the server/data off to someone else? Do all of our accounts created here disappear? What do other users see if they click through my profile from a post on a different federated server? What happens to all of the content created on the server in question?
What happens to accounts/history created here if the server shuts down?
Professional game dev for 25 years now. Started modding and level design back in the days of DOOM/Quake, which eventually led to a job in the industry.
I'm a designer primarily, but I also do quite a bit of engineering. I've worked mostly with heavily modified Source engine and, most recently, Unreal.