Could you run a Kbin or Lemmy instance that was not live all of the time and not break federation

Rumblestiltskin@lemmy.ca to Fediverse@lemmy.ml – 2 points –

If you ran Lemmy or kbin locally as a single user instance with no hosted communities and it was not live all of the time would you miss a lot pushed data? Would this data be pulled later? Would this cause de-federation?

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I don't know that much about the architecture of the Lemmy or Kbin software, but I would imagine it does some kind of sync operation that's not time sensitive. So I would expect you could bring a server up and down at some cycle and still do all the pushes and pulls as required.

Though in practice I think I'd just set up a server that's always on. I mean you could probably do it easily enough with an R-Pi and DynDNS. I don't believe the software is all that demanding until there's a big user load.

I assume you suggest DynDNS because most people's home IP address does not stay static. My home IP has stayed the same for over 3 years. I guess there could be a security concern if the IP changed and another computer assumes my domain name, but that could be changed pretty quick.