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submitted 2 months ago by eli04@linux.community to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

lots of German speaking channels with several hundreds and thousands of members but no content whatsoever, some of them with no posts for the last 6 months...

what happened?

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[-] Pechente@feddit.org 48 points 2 months ago

As someone else said, feddit.de is dead and has been superseded by feddit.org. The original instance has unfortunately been abandoned by its owner.

[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 9 points 2 months ago

The owner should pass the torch rather than let it die.

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 21 points 2 months ago

The owner vanished and the other Admins miss the ssh keys to be able to migrate it. Also feddit.de had a partially fried database after a disk ran out of space

[-] ksharp@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

Seriously, what's up with owners vanishing? Kbin.social, Kbin.run, feddit.de?

Not even a message saying something like "this project is taking up too much of my time, bye everyone."

[-] superkret@feddit.org 22 points 2 months ago

It wasn't like that. The owner went on a long vacation during which the server's disk ran full, the database was corrupted as a result, and the backup was overwritten with a corrupted state, before the owner returned.

feddit.org was created as a community effort to keep that from happening again.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 months ago

Plenty of others too: vlemmy.net, iusearch.fyi, lemmy.film.

That's why people should pay attention to a few things when looking for a server

  • are there at least two admins?
  • are they communicating regularly, including on their finances
  • is there a Matrix chat or another way to reach out to them
[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

I'm very sad about kbin, I eve told Ernest that I'd volunteer with some admin work and potentially code (even if I despise PHP), but he declined, even when his health went really bad.

[-] quant@leminal.space 4 points 2 months ago

The early internet also had personal website vanishing or being abandoned all the time. Static webpages don't need constant maintenance but it's more noticeable when it's a community.

[-] daqu@feddit.org 7 points 2 months ago

The owner started a new life as a yoga instructor in Pyongyang.

[-] Pechente@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

Absolutely. I don’t know much about the situation but it seems like the owner had some personal issues and just went radio silent on everyone up until someone made the new instance. The whole situation was definitely mishandled

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago

Maybe the owner died before they could oaas the torch ?

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