undefined> What was dealt with back in the early days is often completely unnecessary now, and deciding to revive those issues for no other reason than precedence is perfectly analogous to shooting yourselves in the foot
The reason is to decentralize. Right now there’s like 3 main email hosts. There’s benefits to that, but also downsides. So until there’s some company that runs a lemmy instance (not totally unrealistic), it’s always going to be “some guy’s server”. But even that doesn’t guarantee they’ll be around forever.
I’ll grant that if real-time/hourly/daily/weekly duplication of accounts to create a recoverable backup is unachievable or unreasonably demanding, fair enough.
It’s not about backups. If google stops its email service, you can have all the backups you want but you’ll have lost your @gmail.com email. Same with your lemmy account, if the host goes away you’ve lost your account. It’s really no difference. The actual posts will live on forever because they’ve been federated.
you can have all the backups you want but you’ll have lost your @gmail.com email. Same with your lemmy account, if the host goes away you’ve lost your account
If I practically end up keeping my account at the end of lemm.ee, and all that changes is that my username goes from Comment105@lemm.ee to Comment105@lemmy.world, I think that would be a perfectly good result for a lemmy backup system.
undefined> What was dealt with back in the early days is often completely unnecessary now, and deciding to revive those issues for no other reason than precedence is perfectly analogous to shooting yourselves in the foot
The reason is to decentralize. Right now there’s like 3 main email hosts. There’s benefits to that, but also downsides. So until there’s some company that runs a lemmy instance (not totally unrealistic), it’s always going to be “some guy’s server”. But even that doesn’t guarantee they’ll be around forever.
It’s not about backups. If google stops its email service, you can have all the backups you want but you’ll have lost your @gmail.com email. Same with your lemmy account, if the host goes away you’ve lost your account. It’s really no difference. The actual posts will live on forever because they’ve been federated.
If I practically end up keeping my account at the end of lemm.ee, and all that changes is that my username goes from Comment105@lemm.ee to Comment105@lemmy.world, I think that would be a perfectly good result for a lemmy backup system.