• @Anafroj@sh.itjust.works
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      131 year 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
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        Came from reddit and I’m still here. Maybe I’m the only one planning to stick around, but probably not.

        • Ech
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          81 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.

  • UKFilmNerd
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    281 year ago

    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.

    • @LocustOfControl@reddthat.com
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      41 year ago

      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!

      • UKFilmNerd
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        31 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.

  • kersploosh
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    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:

    • kratoz29
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      41 year ago

      Sell??? Is a Lemmy instance actually profitable?

      • @willya@lemmyf.uk
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        51 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.

    • Deebster
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      31 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.

  • Lenny
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    131 year 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
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      81 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%.

  • Otter
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    61 year 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.deOP
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      31 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

    • Deebster
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      11 year 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.

  • @jaamesbaxterr@lemmy.world
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    51 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.