We have a problem over at feddit.uk, the sole admin has gone missing and no one has been able to contact him. All we wanted is for a few more people to be made admins then problems could be solved. A new server/instance is going to be created and hopefully everyone on feddit can move over. Unless the admin comes back, it will fall behind in updates and become defederated. This happened once a few weeks ago by lemmy.world but we managed to convince them it was in error and they federated us back in.
Some instances have gone down recently, did we miss any?
Submitted 8 months ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to fediverse@lemmy.world
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UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 8 months ago
kglitch@kglitch.social 8 months ago
The initial enthusiasm is wearing off.
Check out these graphs (scroll down) https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy. They don't show October yet, but there are some downward trends visible.
Anafroj@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
As a trader, I would say this is a minor correction and we really should not read much into it. :) (of course, this is not a financial graph, but I’ve seen the similar patterns of impulse/correction in many graphs that measure opinion and/or human activity)
ElleChaise@kbin.social 8 months ago
Came from reddit and I'm still here. Maybe I'm the only one planning to stick around, but probably not.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
I usually check lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats, which shows a constant number of servers, which is why I got confused
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
lemmy.film is still down, I miss my daily film content 🙃
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
I know, I contacted @realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city to see if they had any preference on where to create a new movies community.
I was thinking about lemm.ee. There is !games@sh.itjust.works which is quite popular, so it would be nice to have a general interest community on lemm.ee as well.
rglullis@communick.news 8 months ago
Created metacritics.zone a couple of days ago. I would be happy to create the community there.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Just realized that narwhal.city is Lotide and not Lemmy, so maybe the message got lost in between
willya@lemmyf.uk 8 months ago
My guess is just that interest has been lost. The admin at pornlemmy.com is even trying to sell it off to someone.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Yes, I’ve seen that one
kratoz29@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Sell??? Is a Lemmy instance actually profitable?
willya@lemmyf.uk 8 months ago
They’ve actually put some of their own custom code and stuff into it, but no I don’t think it would be worth buying it. Using another UI achieves all of the tweaks they created.
Deebster@programming.dev 8 months ago
That’s not great for user privacy - having a database of people’s kinks up for sale is not a headline that will help the Lemmy project. Hopefully everyone’s sensible enough to have anonymous alt accounts for their embarrassing Lemmy usage.
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Hundreds of small instances have disappeared in the last few months. If The Federation was still working I could scrape the current list of instances and identify ones that have appeared/disappeared since I last scraped it in July.
Here are a few down instances that I found manually:
And https://lemmings.world seems to be alive but doesn’t fully load for me before the connection times out.
ChefTyler1980@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I was going to mention geddit.social because that was my second instance (I had moved there from Lemmy.world in an effort to spread the load) until it went down with no info/reasoning.
SuperSpaceFan@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Geddit.social is my back-up instance as well. I see it’s still down. Just curious, has it been down before today?
rikudou@lemmings.world 8 months ago
What seems to be the problem with lemmings.world? There were a few hiccups, but overall it works as per lemmy-meter.info.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Thanks for that tool, didn’t know it
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It’s working for me now. Earlier today the main page’s static content (site header and sidebar) would load, but no posts.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Interesting, thanks!
Lemmings.world should be alright, I was talking to @rikudou@lemmings.world earlier today
Levsgetso@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
It’s always the small instances full of passion.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Just noted that the following seems down as well lemmy.cafe
GroteStreet@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Ah, I mistook it for !perth@aussie.zone , makes sense!
Lennnny@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m new here and quite liking it, but I have to say, the constant “it’s not working out” messages in these posts make me not want to engage as much. No one likes to invest in a downward trend.
Maybe the community needs to be a little more enthused, and it will keep newer folks around?
Spzi@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Read these as exceptions. Most instances are fine, which is why they are not talked about. Recently there was a post discussing uptimes. Many had more than 99.3%.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Welcome!
spaduf@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
There’s an AWS issue apparently. Any chance that’s what’s going on here?
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Ah, that could be, but for several days?
otter@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Long term it might be better to get some existing organizations involved in some of these niche use cases. There are non profits out there operating in different industries and they would have the momentum and support to keep instances going, as opposed to a single person running an instance locally.
For the general purpose instances I don’t feel as bad (it sucks, but there’s more out there). For the topic based ones, it’s harder to migrate those communities to something else and it’s not great to have everything on one instance
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Definitely.
I’m surprised that besides the SDF and KDE social there aren’t many FOSS non profit who started a Lemmy instance, while Mastodon seems quite mainstream now
Deebster@programming.dev 8 months ago
My old instance lemmyrs.org went down and it’s because the admin didn’t have enough time to deal with an upgrade problem. They were talking about having Hackyderm help out/take over but that clearly didn’t go anywhere.
Having some kind of escrow where the DNS/server could be stored for these single-admin instances might be a good idea.
iso@lemy.lol 8 months ago
lemmy.cafe working for me right now.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
It is for me well, that’s good news!
jaamesbaxterr@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah my Lemmy.ninja account stopped working a few days ago. No clue why, or even where to look to find out. I hope it wasn’t just lack of funding because I gladly would have donated.
Brkdncr@kbin.social 8 months ago
$. Almost every reason for shutting off boils down to lack of financial support to keep it running.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 8 months ago
Nope. It’s administration and moderation.
Brkdncr@kbin.social 8 months ago
Pay for that?
willya@lemmyf.uk 8 months ago
Nope, believe it or not it is dirt cheap to run one of these.
Turun@feddit.de 8 months ago
It really depends. It would not surprise me if lemmy.world needs to buy a terabyte of storage every month just to have enough space for all image uploads. That’s possible when you can just use a single hard drive and put it in a server at home, but if you use hosting and/or want redundancy that can add up quickly.
Microw@lemm.ee 8 months ago
There was a disruption of Service on lemm.ee a few hours ago, but it’s back now
jaamesbaxterr@lemmy.ninja 8 months ago
Just noticed my ninja account is working again!
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Great news!
CubbyTustard@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
That’s for sharing, that’s unfortunate.
I think long term there might be 20-50 instances willing to deal with that kind of crap rather than the 1000s there are now