• lohrun
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      1610 months ago

      Out of the loop, what happened to vlemmy?

      • @[email protected]
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        4310 months ago

        Actual answer:

        The admin just kinda wiped everything without any announcement. Shut down donation links and all. As far as I’ve heard nobody ever figured out why.

      • Lemdee
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        -710 months ago

        deleted by creator

      • shootwhatsmyname
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        must have been the one seized by the FBI for CSAM that I was hearing about—but don’t quote me on that

        • @GeneralVincent
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          1710 months ago

          Are you thinking of the mastodon based Kolektiva.social? The server hosting it was apparently seized by the FBI for an unrelated raid on the owner of the instance. There wasn’t anything related to CSAM in that situation though

          • @[email protected]
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            610 months ago

            The server wasn’t raided, the person being raided had an unencrypted backup of the instance database on their personal computer, which got seized in a raid unrelated to the Mastodon server.

        • Lemdee
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          deleted by creator

        • Vuraniute
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          110 months ago

          Nope, AFAIK the only CSAM instance I know of was burggit.

  • @mvirts
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    3910 months ago

    You’re the admin now, Dog

  • 001100 010010
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    lemmy.fmhy.ml?

    Edit: I mean this one isn’t gone forever, they’re just gonna have to get a new domain. I’m guessing it’s Vlemmy like someone else already said.

  • @egeres
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    2410 months ago

    Isn’t the fediverse fragile long-term wise from a structural point of view? I have this feeling that a ton of small lemmy instances will die over the years taking content away (I don’t expect this will happen with lemmy.world). Is this something that could happen? Will it be a problem?

    • @[email protected]
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      1410 months ago

      One way to deal with it is to add an easy way to transfer users and posts from one instance to another. I’m pretty sure there are tickets about it, but I don’t know what’s the status of it.

    • @janonymous
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      810 months ago

      I thought the content will still be available on the other instances that were federated before the instance went down.

      • Despair
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        610 months ago

        Text is federated between instances while images are hosted on the home instance assuming you didn’t just embed an image from somewhere else like Imgur. I dont believe lemmy hosts any videos, but that might just be an instance admin thing.

      • @egeres
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        510 months ago

        It’s possible I’m wrong!! I’m still learning about the mechanics of the fediverse

      • Franklin
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        110 months ago

        Could we do something like a central ledger for users that an instance could opt in to hosting but still isn’t controlled centrally?

      • @[email protected]
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        110 months ago

        It is stored on the instance. If the instance goes, the content is gone too.
        I don’t know exactly will something be cached, but even if it is, eventually it will be invalidated too.

  • @[email protected]
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    1310 months ago

    Reminder to always backup your subscriptions/blocks to an alt acct using LASIM or something similar.