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[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If someone hasn't written a software package to do so already, it's probably possible to write one to dump and clone all the comments and posts on a server.

[–] Ibuthyr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The comments fortunately are still there, but the images are all gone. They had some trouble that was image-related which led to the server collapsing at some stage. I can't recall the specifics unfortunately.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Are those posts/comments/images available on other instances?

If an instance just shuts down, we just lose all that content? Sounds like a pretty fatal flaw.