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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[–] Aux@lemmy.world 3 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 1 points 1 year ago (2 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.

[–] McNasty@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Host on your own instance until you die unexpectedly from a heart attack at age 42.

Now your !pinball@dumbass.haha community with 2 million subscribers isn't available to anyone. Because you're dead and didn't pay your server bill.

[–] CodeBlooded@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

This was oddly specific 🤔

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

You set up an long lasting organisation to manage the server. Such servers such as Lemmy.sdf.org are such examples.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's the problem :)