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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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[-] 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.

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