I used to have an older account (same username but lemm.ee) with a bunch of posts here that I realize are now basically gone. Would anyone be upset if I resubmit those posts on here over time?
(I know that you’re supposed to post anything, but I know reposts can be annoying lol, so figured I’d ask)
With the shitshow of the worl rn I bet the majority of people won’t notice a repost beyond a year, maybe even 6 months. So blast us with new-old shitposts
I’d just stagger them to give them time to breathe. A couple a day
Sounds good - that was my intentions anyway.
I don’t mind. They were probably posted way back anyways
I think 196 has generally been a bit lax on reposts anyways because it’s difficult to figure out if something has already been posted here or not. Almost every post is titled some variation of “rule,” so it’s damn near impossible to search for anything.
rerule ur posts fren
Are you sure they are gone? Maybe it changed, but I don't believe that is how instances work. The only things that should be missing are things that were never transported between instances.
This place works by using background transporter bots that carry the actual user content between instances. The frequency and number of bots is configured by admin of each instance. After the stuff is moved, it is basically a mirror present on every instance. If a server goes offline, or is defederated with another instance, the only thing that changes are that there are no bots going back and forth. All of the communities, posts, and comments from that old instance are still present on every other instance.
Now I’m not sure how .ee was handled in each instance when it comes to the old native .ee communities, or if the threadiverse has remedied this. As I (barely) understand it, community federation relies on the primary host in a radial hub configuration. So a user on db0 may see a .ee community called foobar and create a new post. A user on .world may see the same foobar@ee still, but no background transporter bots will carry those posts directly between db0 and .world because the .ee hub is missing.
I only know these basics from nearly 2 years ago when .beehaw defederated from .world. And that was mostly just from the heuristic logic of trying stuff out, because I could still post to beehaw communities from .world, but only ever saw interaction from the local instance. At the time, beehaw had a couple of large communities that were not present or active elsewhere. I thought the other instances would still federate, but that did not appear to be the case at all.
All that said, the global demographics along with life’s ebb and flow for everyone means there is nothing wrong with reposting, especially with any original content. Hope that helps digital neighborule.
