I just realised that the MegaLinks subreddit wouldn’t have had to close up if it was selfhosted on the fediverse, the idea of independent servers for each major sub is fascinating.
That being said, I’m sure it would have ran into new issues.
Edit: Changed ML to MegaLinks.
Deletes federate, so a takedown on one Lemmy would propagate throughout the network. You can hack that out, of course, but most instances that don’t propagate deletions will get defederated from all the normal Lemmy servers.