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Are there others?

Also, it seems like a lot, does anyone know why they all went down at the same time?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see that the admin came back and now there's a few admins there and all is well 👍

More an update for others, since I expect you already know!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you yes. The original admin, for whatever reason, made an appearance and as you say, created more admins who use the server a lot more.

Everything should continue as normal. They were incredibly close to launching a new instance as well.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Came from reddit and I'm still here. Maybe I'm the only one planning to stick around, but probably not.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This seems less about users bailing and more about instance admins deciding to do so. The latter have a much higher level of overhead and stress to deal with, so it makes sense to see as the highs of the Reddit protests fade out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I usually check https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats, which shows a constant number of servers, which is why I got confused

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lemmy.film is still down, I miss my daily film content 🙃

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know, I contacted @[email protected] to see if they had any preference on where to create a new movies community.

I was thinking about lemm.ee. There is [email protected] which is quite popular, so it would be nice to have a general interest community on lemm.ee as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Created https://metacritics.zone a couple of days ago. I would be happy to create the community there.

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[–] kersploosh 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

https://lemmings.world seems to be alive but doesn't fully load for me before the connection times out.

Here are a few down instances that I found manually:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Geddit.social is my back-up instance as well. I see it's still down. Just curious, has it been down before today?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For at least 5 weeks as far as I know. My account is 27 days old and I waited a week before I created a new account on Lemmy.world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, crap. I joined geddit.social after vlemmy admin disappeared with no notice. Fortunately, my primary account is lemm.ee and it has been solid. But it looks like I'll need to once again find another small back-up instance.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What seems to be the problem with lemmings.world? There were a few hiccups, but overall it works as per lemmy-meter.info.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for that tool, didn't know it

[–] kersploosh 2 points 1 year ago

It's working for me now. Earlier today the main page's static content (site header and sidebar) would load, but no posts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Interesting, thanks!

Lemmings.world should be alright, I was talking to @[email protected] earlier today

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My guess is just that interest has been lost. The admin at pornlemmy.com is even trying to sell it off to someone.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yes, I've seen that one

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sell??? Is a Lemmy instance actually profitable?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year 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%.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It’s always the small instances full of passion.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's an AWS issue apparently. Any chance that's what's going on here?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ah, that could be, but for several days?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

There was a disruption of Service on lemm.ee a few hours ago, but it's back now

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lemmy.cafe working for me right now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It is for me well, that's good news!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just noticed my ninja account is working again!

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