This actually sounds pretty similar to what happened to feddit.de - the former main admin/infrastructure owner stopped being active, and eventually the active admins had to move to feddit.org when technical difficulties sprang up that they couldn’t solve with their access level.
Only difference is that feddit.de didn’t go up for auction, it’s still running just with minimal user interaction. Apparently it was somewhat recently deactivated.
This actually sounds pretty similar to what happened to feddit.de - the former main admin/infrastructure owner stopped being active, and eventually the active admins had to move to feddit.org when technical difficulties sprang up that they couldn’t solve with their access level.
Only difference is that feddit.de didn’t go up for auction, it’s still running just with minimal user interaction.Apparently it was somewhat recently deactivated.Doesn’t appear to be, there aren’t any IP addresses associated with feddit.de.
~> dig feddit.de any ; <<>> DiG 9.18.30 <<>> feddit.de any ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 49617 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 65494 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;feddit.de. IN ANY ;; Query time: 780 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53) (TCP) ;; WHEN: Tue Feb 11 21:51:08 GMT 2025 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 38You know it’s the Fediverse when you see people using
diginstead ofnslookup.No need to point a
fingerat anyone.I just don’t dig the way
nslookupoutputs its answers.Oh, that’s new. Was definitely still running last time I checked 1 or 2 months ago.
It totally isn’t.