Start it again on our new instance :)
Comment on Feddit.UK has finally kicked the bucket- and what happens next.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
What happens to the accounts communities that were on feddit.uk? I made an account there to create !hellointernet@feddit.uk, but I spend most of my time on sh.itjust.works. Are there any tools to move existing content from the old site to the new site in a (somewhat) cohesive manner?
20cx12@lemmy.world 1 year ago
SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Any indication of when that might be open? I understand you don’t want to be flooded by too many sign ups at once but you’re not giving any concrete information at all. Wouldn’t it make sense to at least invite the mods of the larger communities currently hosted on feddit.uk to join yours now so they can more easily move their communities over?
Tatters@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I assume no-one, including the feddit uk admins, can access the server to copy anything off it, so it will all be lost.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Isn’t one of the benefits of federation that content is backed up in multiple places?
For example, I can still view all the content at sh.itjust.works/c/hellointernet@feddit.uk, despite not being able to access feddit/c/hellointernet.
magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 1 year ago
You can see the content but not, afaik, move the community or take ownership of it. I’m afraid you’ll have to recreate it somewhere more stable.
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 year ago
I wonder what happens if somebody recycles a domain that was previously used for another instance…
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe servers need a contingency plan to be able to communicate with users as to backup options in case one goes down?
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I guess I’m kind of asking / supposing, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if lemmy / activitypub doesn’t really work that way.
As in, posts to feddit.uk are stored on feddit.uk. If you read a thread from sh.itjust.works/c/whatever@feddit.uk then sh.itjust.works server will pull it down from feddit.uk and show you the post. It may even cache a copy of the post to show it to another user, but that’s not the same as backing up the post.