I think it’s worth talking about as it seems to be very poir and it’s a major problem towards adoption, one of the several. I have a tendency to occasionally go through my post history to try and remember things I had forgotten about. Go look and see how the conversation may have changed since I last looked and stuff like that when I’m just sitting around bored.
What I have noticed with Lemmy is that way too many posts no longer exist, I’m getting really tired of being able to see something in my post history but then when I try to go to it having it be unable to be loaded and it no longer is around. Most of these threads are not even that old it seems to constantly happen, stuff that’s barely even a month back doesn’t exist anymore let alone the things that are further back.
Meanwhile on Reddit I can still go to threads from like almost 10 years ago and as long as they didn’t get hit by that phase where people went deleting their entire Post history everything is still there. I think the longevity of content is a pretty major issue. I’m not really sure what is causing it, if moderators are just randomly deleting threads, if people are randomly deleting their own stuff or if some instances have retention issues and delete older stuff.
Curious what others think about this, have you been running into it as well? Do you see it as a problem? Why or why not Etc
I think this the main disadvantage of the threadiverse, probably because I still don’t fully understand how it works.
Where is each post hosted? What is each instance hosting? Do they keep copies of stuff from other instances? How expensive is all that?
Longevity costs money.
Each post is hosted on the instance of the community the post was posted in.
Any other instance makes a full copy of posts and the comments. Images aren’t copied, though.