Comment on Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
After a month and a half downtime all the users will have moved on to other instances. This is essentially a death sentence for the instance.
I dont think it will be. I’ve had two accounts for a while to deal with unexpected issues & will happily return to my slrpnk account once it’s back up and running :)
Plus for the communities, people who were subscribed to them before will likely stay subscribed & once the instance is back up the posts will be in their feeds without an issue.
Being able to accommodate issues like this is one of the major upsides to a decentralized platform.
Idk, quite a few (me included) made alt accounts for the time being, and we’ll return when it becomes possible, especially if we really do migrate to piefed.
They didn’t need you anyway.
I think the migration to Piefed would be worse. Piefed is great, but needs better App support for Lemmy users to migrate.
On Android you can use the Interstellar app https://interstellar.jwr.one/ with piefed.social! Also iOS: https://testflight.apple.com/join/JXRtHye2
I think now that Piefed has an API for apps, we will see some of them adding support soon. Overall I think the benefits of a Piefed migration outweight the disadvantages, but it remains to be seen if it is doable.
Lets see. I think a relaunch on Piefed might interest some people to come back, and most slrpnk communities are rather niche and will probably stay. /c/climate might move though.
You underestimate the userbase. I made a temp account in the mean time, but we are a hyper tight knit community. We will probably lose accounts - no question - but the core userbase will return
Time to come back, it is working again. Lucky break 😅
Thanks for the speed and the work !
Count me in! Slrpnks all the way! 💚
I agree. I replied to Kris elsewhere saying this, but I am super glad to have been a part of this instance because it feels like a nice balance of being large enough to be robust and diverse, but small enough to have a distinctive culture. I don’t often interact with the communities that were on the instance, but I always enjoy seeing my peers crop up in the comments of various posts — it’s one of my favourite parts of Lemmy being federated (db0 is another example of an instance that has such a distinctive vibe that seeing it as someone’s instance is often useful metadata that affects how I parse their comment)
The local communities are such a great mix of uplifting and informative posts that I am sure to return.
You may underestimate user dedication. I love my instance and totally would come back after a few months away temporarily.
You got me on the communities though.
lautre@jlai.lu 9 months ago
I don’t think so, I will definitely go back and do not wish to move permanently in another instance.
As others have said I think this instance has a strong base of dedicated users, it’s a “specialized” instance that has no equivalent.