Signal Boost: Questions About Federation

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muccamukk posted: Questions About Federation

 

What happens if whoever runs that instance flounces? Does the picture go bye? If not, where does it go, and who pays for hosting?

We're actually discussing this in the distributed fandom discord (link in post_tumblr_fandom). We're kicking the tired on the idea of a Mothership organization, which exists to back up people's data (opt-in) and provide a second home in case of flouncing/data loss. The mothership wouldn't be somewhere people actively hang out - it would just leverage those info exchange protocols (ActivityPub and Zot) to enable people to back up their data while hanging out on smaller fan-run servers. We'd also work with potential server admins to help them set up their own sites and back up their files to hedge against data loss.

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