For kbin in particular, what would happen to an instance’s Magazines(subreddits), the communities would just go poof?
I’m a rat who left the sinking ship that is reddit and I want to better understand how the whole fediverse thing works. I get that “everyone can host their own instances and access the federated fediverse servers/instances”, but if a particular large one has gained traction and would one day implode, is there any way to prevent/mitigate it?
Yes, the code for Kbin, Mastodon, Lemmy, etc. is open source, so anyone can spin up a new instance if they want. However, spinning up a new instance of Kbin would not save the content of any other instance if it were to go down.
If kbin.social shuts down tomorrow, then all the communities and user accounts that are hosted there are gone too. Kbin would still exist because there are other instances, but nothing @kbin.social would exist, if that makes sense.