Comment on Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoWhat exactly happened there? It was the big thing, then I didn’t use it for a month or so and then it was gone.
Comment on Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoWhat exactly happened there? It was the big thing, then I didn’t use it for a month or so and then it was gone.
philpo@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
The admin basically ran it as a one man show with only one other admin who had very limited privileges. He then went on a “business trip” or workaction or longterm vacation - there were different stories. Anyway, the database went belly up, the other admin couldn’t do a thing and none could contact the admin. There are some rumours that he wasn’t who he claimed he was and actually was a Chinese national who simply returned home, but who knows that. As a matter of fact none had any meaningful contact with him for months then and it appears he did not return. (But is alive)
A Austrian NGO who amongst others does host some mastodon instances,etc. took over and now feddit.org is on a very productive, professional and transparent level.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thanks for the summary! That sounds freaky!
Well, the trade-off between trusting a huge corporation or a single dude on the internet.
JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
XKCD #2347
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Ya gotta give a line from it or something, I don’t just see numbers and know what they are.