is my account and all its posts, comments, activity and bookmarks just gonna be gone?
No. Your account and it's posts, comment, and activity will live on because they're copied to other instances. You won't be able to log on though. That's why the post suggests making a new account and updating your bio before the shut down. Exporting and importing your settings will probably carry over bookmarks.
I mean, yeah, any instance could be gone at any time. Anything can disappear at any time. Don't overthink it. Just pick a new instance at random like you did before. Export and import settings. Leave a note on your profile where your new account is. Once lemm.ee is gone, your account's info page will forever say where your new account is. This instance shutting down doesn't mean your old comments and posts disappear. Sure, you won't be able to directly respond to them, but they aren't vanishing.
It sucks, and it's an annoyance, but it's hardly the end of the world.
Think about if this were a non-federated platform. You'd be shit out of luck. All your posts and comments would be gone forever. All of everyone's content from your instance would just be lost to time when the server shits down. But with federation it gets copied to other instances. It will live on there. The only time it won't be is if someone makes a new instance after lemm.ee is gone, they won't be able to pull in old lemm.ee stuff.
People aren't reading Wikipedia articles with the intention of getting better at reading.
What's funny is crawling the site would actually be more difficult and take longer than downloading and reading the archive.
Context for others, Wikipedia is only ~24 GB (compressed and without media or history). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia
As of 16 October 2024, the size of the current version including all articles compressed is about 24.05 GB without media.
Reddit arguably has no reason for it because if you're banned you're not supposed to make a new account. I would never do such a thing!
How is this failing? If lemm.ee was a traditional forum it'd be over, but because of federation everything lives on.
Yes officer, this one right here.
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Was it?
The battle of the pages
It's a joke. Trolling implies intent to deceive or get a negative reaction.
No, I don't. But I do find it humourous you moderate a community called "how to sell drugs online fast" lol. And I genuinely don't mean that in some sort of "you're biased" way, truly.
No, if you think of censorship as a sliding scale with total freedom to say anything on one side and extremely rigid and locked down on the other, it doesn't take much moving away from the anything goes side to want to block racists.