I like that Lemmy can post on other instances (communities on other instances), but thinking about it, would that not present a potential issue with centralizing information about a topic on one instance?

I know it’s kind of similar to having themed Mastodon instances (and I also don’t really understand those), but it seems like a potential issue?

I know multiple instances can have the same communities, but that then seems like fracturing the conversation?

Could this just be due to my limited knowledge/use of the fediverse?

  • Grouchy@lemmy.grouchysysadmin.com
    2·
    1 year ago

    Any posts sent to a community sync to everybody subscribed to the community. The original instance may go away, but you still have a copy of the data on your instance.

    • jaxOPA
      2·
      1 year ago

      Ah okay, that’s not terrible, but would make a large instance going away a bit of a pain. At least the data’s not gone.

    • iod@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      sorry for hijacking but i’ve always wondered: if the original instance goes away, does that mean search engines like google would have to reindex the content under a different url so it shows in the rankings again?