It’s a flaw in the fediverse concept. Federation is great, but if you have a big server run by a freelance admin who decides to take some time off without notifying anyone people will search for a more reliable solution. Or just go back to reddit.
Otoh, if one server is having issues, it’s pretty trivial to swap to another. Whereas if reddit is down, it’s down. No getting around that. If Lemmy.today is down, I can just swap to another server without issue (except being treated as a sus person just because my account says it’s new).
You can’t upload pictures and the web interface stopped working weeks ago. You can only make text posts via apps. Why would anyone make a post on that instance?
If you can at least post text, you can at least tell people where to migrate to. Doesn’t seem like that big of an issue, but not being able to migrate all of the post history (AFAIK) is unfortunate (hopefully something is done to fix that shortcoming).
I can see at least one feddit.de community via web browser, so do you meant just the feddit.de web interface stopped working, but people on other instances still can see it? Or is it broken in ways other than simply being able to see the posts?
I can see at least one feddit.de community via web browser
Are you viewing it from your instance or feddit.de? I can see all the feddit.de communities I subscribed to on sh.itjust.works, but I can’t see the main site at all.
Viewing from my instance. Doesn’t really seem like a big deal as long as the original content is still viewable from other instances, including viewing old account’s history.
They posted today on [email protected] that they were organizing to retake this.
I wish them good luck, and I hope they succeeded. Feddit.UK was also there a few months ago, hopefully people like @[email protected] took over
It’s a flaw in the fediverse concept. Federation is great, but if you have a big server run by a freelance admin who decides to take some time off without notifying anyone people will search for a more reliable solution. Or just go back to reddit.
This is called the “bus factor”. Any instance run by a single admin is extremely fragile.
That’s why reliable servers have more than one single admin.
I guess we should educate more about that, actually I was surprised that feddit.de was run by a single person
Otoh, if one server is having issues, it’s pretty trivial to swap to another. Whereas if reddit is down, it’s down. No getting around that. If Lemmy.today is down, I can just swap to another server without issue (except being treated as a sus person just because my account says it’s new).
Except the communities created on that instances all suffer. There were some popular ommunities on feddit.de that are now wastelands.
How are communities affected by such outages? Do they stop federating, but people can still see what other people from their own instance post?
You can’t upload pictures and the web interface stopped working weeks ago. You can only make text posts via apps. Why would anyone make a post on that instance?
Can’t you also post from other instances? I see new posts on [email protected] all the time
If you can at least post text, you can at least tell people where to migrate to. Doesn’t seem like that big of an issue, but not being able to migrate all of the post history (AFAIK) is unfortunate (hopefully something is done to fix that shortcoming).
I can see at least one feddit.de community via web browser, so do you meant just the feddit.de web interface stopped working, but people on other instances still can see it? Or is it broken in ways other than simply being able to see the posts?
Are you viewing it from your instance or feddit.de? I can see all the feddit.de communities I subscribed to on sh.itjust.works, but I can’t see the main site at all.
Viewing from my instance. Doesn’t really seem like a big deal as long as the original content is still viewable from other instances, including viewing old account’s history.