<![CDATA[I'm going to preface this with that I have no intention of doing this at all, this is just a hypothetical that has been nagging me.]]>I'm going to preface this with that I have no intention of doing this at all, this is just a hypothetical that has been nagging me.

Let's say I were to delete this instance tomorrow, or maybe the domain expires and I never renew it... Does the cache of my posts and info and such eventually disappear from other fediverse instances? Do posts have a TTL that gets refreshed with the originating server or anything like that? I am sure that it is different across different implementations, so I'm really just looking for a general answer...

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On lemmy.world, during a few months, I made a few posts into a community that was created for my hometown Bern, without noticing that it was only a zombie copy on my instance; the original community's instance had been shut down long before.

I found this a bit dissatisfying and asked in the instance's help forum, but the answer was not really satisfying either:
lemmy.world/post/51846343

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://joinfriendica.de/objects/70c1e079-116a-ae30-a063-d51342950321https://citiverse.it/post/https://joinfriendica.de/objects/70c1e079-116a-ae30-a063-d51342950321Sat, 19 Sep 2026 06:50:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm going to preface this with that I have no intention of doing this at all, this is just a hypothetical that has been nagging me. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:38:59 GMT]]>@cody The items that are presently federated on to other instances will be removed in time based on that instances policies, data retention problems, or whether the instance goes away or not.

If you want your items to survive at all for some reason, you'd want to either export your data from your account or hang on to the instance's database (and, potentially stored files that go along with your posts).

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://humanwords.party/ap/users/116332936916637974/statuses/117294441367813876https://citiverse.it/post/https://humanwords.party/ap/users/116332936916637974/statuses/117294441367813876Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:38:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm going to preface this with that I have no intention of doing this at all, this is just a hypothetical that has been nagging me. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:37:32 GMT]]>@cody Yeah and another thing is if other instances would respect that.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/dusoft/statuses/117292784217069837https://citiverse.it/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/dusoft/statuses/117292784217069837Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:37:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm going to preface this with that I have no intention of doing this at all, this is just a hypothetical that has been nagging me. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:00:23 GMT]]>@cody
Depending on the project, you'll have different options. On Friendica, where I'm located, the admin has extensive control over this. If a post expires locally, it's retrieved again from the original server. If the server is no longer available at that time, the post content is no longer accessible.
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]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://loma.ml/objects/373ebf56-106a-ad52-07e0-e31360805137https://citiverse.it/post/https://loma.ml/objects/373ebf56-106a-ad52-07e0-e31360805137Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:00:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm going to preface this with that I have no intention of doing this at all, this is just a hypothetical that has been nagging me. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:44:57 GMT]]>@dusoft I am not aware of that being an option in GoToSocial, but even if it was, I think my question is assuming that it is not on.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://fedi-gts.subnet-masked.com/users/cody/statuses/01M2TFMK1623TB7JBFD7RD96NGhttps://citiverse.it/post/https://fedi-gts.subnet-masked.com/users/cody/statuses/01M2TFMK1623TB7JBFD7RD96NGFri, 18 Sep 2026 14:44:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm going to preface this with that I have no intention of doing this at all, this is just a hypothetical that has been nagging me. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:49:49 GMT]]>@cody do you have auto-delete set up?

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/dusoft/statuses/117292360618915102https://citiverse.it/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/dusoft/statuses/117292360618915102Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:49:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm going to preface this with that I have no intention of doing this at all, this is just a hypothetical that has been nagging me. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:21:02 GMT]]>@cody@subnet-masked.com it differs depending on implementation.

I believe both Mastodon and Lemmy will keep a copy of your posts forever unless explicitly deleted.

NodeBB (where I am) will only keep posts if there is a relation to someone local (e.g. a follow, participation in a local topic, etc.), otherwise it gets deleted within 7days (by default)

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://activitypub.space/post/2462https://citiverse.it/post/https://activitypub.space/post/2462Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:21:02 GMT