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Biggest problem: if an instance closes, the content on it dies as well (can’t interact with it..)
The instance could also decide to wipe all the content that’s on it and it would replicate this mass deletion to all federated instances, making us lose all the content that’s on it. In a way it’s stil very censorable and centralized
The content is still on other servers. The problem is that search engines don't really understand federation so they pickup posts on particular instances which creates dead links.
For the second case, the federated instances would also remove the content
That's not how that works. It would still be cached on other instances. The only way it would be deleted is though a mass deletion but if it gets bad enough the admins could restore the content and then block the delete request.
That’s what I was saying. If admins manually deleted comments/posts from their instance, it would replicate to others
The admins of the other instances could restore comments and posts from backup if it was deemed necessary.
Also things posted on the internet tend to live on