There was something wrong with the database, the web frontend was only showing “server error” and image uploads where broken. The only admin moved to Asia and disappeared, nobody is able to contact them. At least that’s what I’ve heard.
Edit: And since two days feddit.de has no dns records anymore.
Damn, that’s a shame. I don’t know if it’s because I was using a lot of their community browser tool, but I thought they were one of the most invested in making a long-term alternative.
It was looking fine for a long time. One thing I always thought was weird is that they never accepted donations and paid everything out of their own pockets. That’s why I opted for discuss.tchncs.de when I opened my account, their finances are completely transparent on the website.
Now that you mentioned, I also went to look at feddit.ch and it also seems to have been abandoned.
I honestly don’t know what to feel about this.
On the one hand, it is yet-another data point supporting my hypothesis that the current server-centric architecture of the Fediverse is not sustainable. On the other hand, it seems like not enough people care. Having to move communities around because one admin just got tired of dealing with this shit should not be normalized.
Yes, in as much as we aren’t formally a non-profit organisation or charity but we have a team and we don’t make any money off it. It was touch-and-go for a while as the instance only had one Admin, which always makes it precarious, and they went AWOL. So we assembled a team.to.replace him, tried to get in touch and then had a new instance rolled on a new server. At the last minute he got in touch and handed everything over to us (data and domain) so we were able to keep the lights on.
Our first financial report is here. We have already raised enough that the instance is solid and will be around as long as people want it. As the money all goes through Open Collective, I could spontaneously combust tomorrow and the bills would still get paid.
There was something wrong with the database, the web frontend was only showing “server error” and image uploads where broken. The only admin moved to Asia and disappeared, nobody is able to contact them. At least that’s what I’ve heard.
Edit: And since two days feddit.de has no dns records anymore.
Damn, that’s a shame. I don’t know if it’s because I was using a lot of their community browser tool, but I thought they were one of the most invested in making a long-term alternative.
It was looking fine for a long time. One thing I always thought was weird is that they never accepted donations and paid everything out of their own pockets. That’s why I opted for discuss.tchncs.de when I opened my account, their finances are completely transparent on the website.
Now that you mentioned, I also went to look at feddit.ch and it also seems to have been abandoned.
I honestly don’t know what to feel about this.
On the one hand, it is yet-another data point supporting my hypothesis that the current server-centric architecture of the Fediverse is not sustainable. On the other hand, it seems like not enough people care. Having to move communities around because one admin just got tired of dealing with this shit should not be normalized.
yep.
Switzerland community is now suisse@lemmy.world
Always has been to be honest, this community is French speaking and never was on the feddit.ch, mostly German speaking
It has been a few months.
People usually pick large instances that are known to be reliable
This is remedy but not a real solution to the problem.
Feddit.org is now a non profit managed by several people, so that’s definitely better.
Feddit.UK is the same I think?
@Emperor@feddit.uk
Yes, in as much as we aren’t formally a non-profit organisation or charity but we have a team and we don’t make any money off it. It was touch-and-go for a while as the instance only had one Admin, which always makes it precarious, and they went AWOL. So we assembled a team.to.replace him, tried to get in touch and then had a new instance rolled on a new server. At the last minute he got in touch and handed everything over to us (data and domain) so we were able to keep the lights on.
Our first financial report is here. We have already raised enough that the instance is solid and will be around as long as people want it. As the money all goes through Open Collective, I could spontaneously combust tomorrow and the bills would still get paid.
Lemmy.ca went one better and have done all the paperwork.
Thank you for the insights. Ah yes, that’s Lemmy.ca, I got confused