This would be much easier if the original owners of the instances helped bring it down. Their servers have private keys that verify ownership of the content for the fediverse to work in a trustworthy way.
Without these keys the content has to stay in a sort of read-only state.
This assumes they can find that post. They'd never know if someone searches and lands on a post and not the feed. Or if they only look at their main feed and never review the community.
My initial thought was to build an archive server that grabs all the federated instances' content via the public APIs. Then each instance would then have the option to purge after. However, this prevents folks from discovering it. Unless they are aware of the archive. I bought the domain lemmy.rehab for this. Perhaps, we could even create an instance that hosts only a backend for these dead communities that no one owns. Then moderation would be a nightmare.
The second option was post a sticky post that said this community was dead and no longer synced. But for how long is that useful? What if someone finds a post from years ago and comments and never visits the main feed to see it's dead?
Another option is to put in a request for the core devs to have archived communities. Read-only. However, these communities will remain in a constant out-of-sync status. Comments and posts on discuss.online will never show on lemmy.world or the other way around.
I'm not certain of any option.
And the old guest book. Haha. The internet was so much more sloppy, but it was ours. That's why I love the fediverse. It's a bit more sloppy, but we own it.
That's my problem. I get so caught up with 100%ing a game that I either give up or spend too long on a single game. I still have fun, though.
I only ever played Lemmings on my Grandpa's Windows 3.11 IBM PS/2. He had the holiday one. I loved that. I should try to find that again!
I'm never wrong! I thought I was once, but, it turns out I was just mistaken.
You're not wrong, sadly.
I see your point; however, if they stopped, the people would give them grief for that. But I'm with you. They should take responsibility and help stop exploitative practices.
They ushered it by providing the AppStore or is there something more direct?
I've heard of Crab Champions, but I've not tried it yet. I'm going to have to add it to the list.
So don’t play it if I want to have fun, got it. Hahaha. Sounds like the GBA versions are way better but still not great?