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Dead Lemmy instance, how/where to find backup of the post that was on the offline instance? (lemmings.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by hetzlemmingsworld@lemmings.world to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Reposted from: https://lemmings.world/post/10530999

Please what are the easiest and fastest steps in order to find backup of a currently unavailable post thanks to no longer running Lemmy instance?

Lets say it is this post we are reading, that become offline. I am not asking for the links to instances that hosts it, but for the way on how to discover all the instances myself.

So far I have found only this way:

open largest instances list: https://lemmyverse.net/?order=posts&open=true

open one after another and under magnifier button, search for the same post ID (number) as your dead link has

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

find a remote instance that was potentially subscribed the community in which the post did live.

for example a community named 'eyesuck'

if it was community was something like: deadinstance.com/c/eyesuck

you could theoretically go to lemmy.world/c/eyesuck@deadinstance.com to see those threads.... again, assuming lemmy.world was subscribed to 'eyesuck'

[–] hetzlemmingsworld@lemmings.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I think that when I am having link like https://lemmings.world/post/10530999 or knowing a title of the post, i can not discover in which community it has been posted... When I check same number of post on different instance: https://lemmy.ml/post/10530999 it does NOT work. Yet the search works: https://lemmy.ml/search?q=10530999 is there no other/easier way than opening one big instance after another (for example from the list https://lemmyverse.net/?order=posts&open=true ) and use search like that?

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 4 months ago

no. the verse just isnt designed like that. you subscribe to remote content, you ingest remote content. its not laid out for you to discover the same content in remote sites.

the fediverse is not a simple 'replicate all content everywhere'

its a bunch of servers that can subscribe to similar content from eachother as requested

when they get that content, they can do (display it) however they want.