The german-speaking communities are being rebuilt on the new feddit.org (feddit.de is completely broken now). There was a post a couple days ago about bringing missing feddit.de communities to feddit.org.
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.
The german-speaking communities are being rebuilt on the new feddit.org (feddit.de is completely broken now). There was a post a couple days ago about bringing missing feddit.de communities to feddit.org.
Do you have any information about what happened with feddit.de?
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.
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
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