Whats stopping the person who created this site lemmy.world from just nuking it and deleting all the posts on it one day?
Whats stopping the person who created this site lemmy.world from just nuking it and deleting all the posts on it one day?
What's stopping Reddit from just nuking it and deleting all the posts in one day?
Money and rules around said money. Reddit might not be profitable but it's still a business. They have a team of people who's job is to make sure the business continues. Spez can do a lot of stuff but he'd have a rebellion if he tried to press the off button. And he'd have a lot of debts.
"Lehman Brothers might not be profitable but it's still a business"
Also, search LLC.
Money is a trivial obstacle to overcome for many people. There's nothing stopping Elon from deleting every tweet, for example, because Twitter is no longer public and it is genuinely his property.
He can’t do a lot of stuff though. You’re giving him too much credit to know how to do stuff. he’s a ceo which is just a puppet for the investors. A job that is only to appear as if he’s looking after finances for investors placed at the head of the business. That’s his only job. He doesn’t have to worry about how to actually make the money. He’s never ‘earned’ a red cent in that he knows how labor works. He just has to say things that sound like he knows how to make money. He’s the middle-est of managers. He’s the most replaceable human on earth. A snail could replace him and no one would feel the difference in the day to day workings.
Considering the current state of affairs, if Reddit nuked all posts they'd restore them in a day or two lol
I mean that’s every web site all the time though. The owner/admin can always just delete it.
Like others have said, nothing is stopping them. That is why it is important to spread communities around to other reputable instances, so if something like that does happen, only the communities on that particular instance are lost.
Short answer -- nothing.
Longer answer -- Those communities, posts and comments will still exist on the other servers, but sadly interacting with them will not federate that data to other instances anymore, since the host instance is no longer active.
So you would still be able to see the posts and their comments on other servers?
But the host can initiate a request to delete the data from other federated instances. This will be handled automatically unless the other instances specifically block/stop the deletion request.
Am I right?
In theory ya, an admin could remove/delete the communities, posts and/or comments and then let that data federate out, and they would then be hidden on all of the other servers. But there'd be nothing stopping someone from still replying or creating new posts while that's going on.
I could be wrong but I don't think there's a mass delete tool for the admins.
What’s stopping that one person from pooping? That’s the real fucking question.
You're not supposed to ask. You're not supposed to ask goddammit.
One does not simply ask about poop
Opioids maybe
They wouldn’t need advice about how to achieve it then. They’d probably be asking for help with the opposite.
Nothing. The admins giveth and the admins taketh away.
Blessed be the names of the admins.
What's stopping someone from scraping lemmy.world and creating another archive site?
Lethargy and technical illiteracy I guess?
Nothing.
Likelihood of that actually happening: Incredibly low. Lemmy world is built with being the general server for a lot of people in mind. There's a big admin team. It's a higher likelihood for a random one who finds they can't afford to run a instance.
lemmy.world didn't even exist last month. It's funded by patreon. https://blog.mastodon.world/welcome-lemmy-world
Yep small instances are much more likely to just shutdown. It happened to me, I thought I found my main instance in dataterm.digital and then it just got deleted :(
Sorry to hear that
Someone finally implementing full replication / migration / domain virtualisation, that will. atm, there are other things more pressing for the dev team, though. (Anyone here who could fund such major development?)
Btw. i think more likely than big instances being abandoned by their owners (instead of transferring to a new owner), is them being taken down by some law enforcement or legal procedure. Liability costs can make any not-for-profit endeavour vulnerable to bad big player attack.literally nothing.
Not a stupid question ehh!
lol
You can always host your own instance if you want. It could just be you and your friends, but then you can subscribe to anything on lemmy/kbin. Then you are in charge of your own destiny.
Yes, and that's exactly the reason of why I did some reading and set up my own Lemmy instance. I had an old HP Elitedesk collecting dust here at home, so I just got a free dynamic dns hostname and then installed Lemmy-Easy-Deploy and off I went.
There may be a need for a service that backs up a user's instance content for future migration to another instance.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/506 I wish this was implemented so i could do it myself
Technically I could. But as with mastodon.world I have made a promise to ensure continuity by creating a team of sysadmins and moderators with access, and making sure it can be transferred to them might I get hit by a bus, or get bored of this.
But I hope there will be a feature to export your posts soon so you can create your own backups too.
What's stopping you from burning your house down?
The answer is usually not that the house is completely impervious to fire, nor even that the fire department would come and put it out, but that you don't want to do that.
Burning my house down will cost me money. Shutting lemmy.world down will save the owner a lot of money. They’re not really comparable.
The reality is that a lot of lemmy hosts will rise and fall over the years, and a lot of communities will disappear with them.
Random question, but how would that work out with my account? Would I keep my username and just change my server, or need a whole new account?
Nothing is stopping me from burning my house down but what if the person who hosted this website / instance doesn't want to pay to host all the data anymore or manage it (or is that not how it works)
I mean... you're not wrong. Honestly I'm just not getting too attached to this account in case it does happen.
maybe that's another reason we shouldn't have karma here
Nothing, but all other instances would still exist. While it would suck, you can just make a quick hop to a new instance (or host your own if you’re worried about who runs things) and you’re back up and running.
Compared to if something like Reddit were to be deleted, nothing would exist.
User account migration between instances was still pending in comparison to mastodon, I think?
I'll tell you what there's not, is a Mr. Moneybags investor at the top of the pyramid saying "I forbid you (admin) to act in any way that damages my future earnings." So without that guy in the picture, yeah, you could say there's nothing "stopping" the creators of an instance from deleting it. There's no one there to sue them for lost earnings because some precious monetizable content was removed. But is threat of lawsuits and bankruptcy to force content to stay up forever and ever really better than just letting individual admins of individual instances have total control? Just like any social media, what you post here doesn't "belong" to you anymore, you don't have some special right for it to stay up on the platform, it belongs to the site, and they can remove it, or the entire site, if they want to.
I don’t know, but so what if they did? I’ve been deleting my reddit accounts periodically for years. I used to delete all the comments and now I just delete the account. There are some older ones that I merely lost the password for, and it’s a curiosity to read them, like “oh, that’s what I was doing in 2016”, but it’s not useful or anything.
With the way Lemmy works, I would be surprised if someone out there wasn’t creating an archive of everything available from other servers on the federation setup.
Integrity
It’s like with any other instance: the fact that they want to keep it up and running and are able to.