To elaborate: The problem with commercial aggregators like Reddit, Twitter/X, Facebook, etc. is enshitification, for one reason or another. Of course, Lemmy, etc. on the Fediverse is the alternative solution, seemingly. But let's say that the hardware for a large Lemmy instance just disappears. What happens to all of the posts? Yes, old posts will still be available for a while on other instances. But, seemingly, there won't be any more updates. How is this addressed?

Moderators would of course be interested in continuing but they may not have the skills and resources to set up the hardware.

Instances/servers can disappear for many reasons: retirement, illness, confiscation, war, bungee jumping or parachuting accident, ... the list goes on.

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[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is none, except for server mirrors. But most admins don't bother with that. The ultimate solution is to host your own instance. You can do that because the source is available.

But what's the solution to investors dumping reddit, Elon running X into the ground, etc? Not only is there not one, but Reddit hasn't been open source for years, and the only thing that's been opened with X is its recommendation algorithm.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your own instant doesn't solve anything.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does somehow, because you are responsible for keeping it online

[–] Aux@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So what do you propose exactly? That everyone just moves to your own instance? That won't work.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not talking about users, but communities.

In summary, if you really want to make sure that your communities are well managed, host them on your own instance.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's the problem :)