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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by wink on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:00AM (#35884512)
> The likelihood of a server just randomly disappearing is incredibly low.

Everything else aside, this is completely untrue.

I self-hosted my first fediverse account on Mastodon and got fed up with the complexity of it for a single person instance and shut it off one day (2018 or so?).

On another account at some point 50% of my followed people vanished because 2 servers where everyone in that bubble were on just went offline. Took a while to recreate the list manually.

This may be anecdotal but I've seen it happen very often. Also people on small instances blocking mastodon.social for its mod policies comes close to this experience.

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by regularfry on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @09:45AM (#35887274)
Alternatively: the likelihood of any one server going away tomorrow is small, but the likelihood of something in your social graph going away tomorrow is high.
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