I’m more thinking about old threads. I used to search in subreddits because some information is still useful after years (guides for games, comments on movies/series, …). The information, e.g. this thread, will only be in one instance. Even if there’s a similar community in another instance, this thread will die with lenny.world.
The big, bad instance could just disable federation and all communities and user accounts would be locked on that instance.
There’s a ton of other messengers and there’s WhatsApp but as long as my family doesn’t move from WhatsApp I’m stuck with it.
the exact same software works on other servers which could supplant lemmy.world should the need arise.
But all the communities on lemmy.world would be lost. I was hoping that communities could be forked and run on a different server if needs arise, like we can do with Git repositories.
Even if nobody is standing in the beam there is still at least air.