• Ilikecheese@lemm.ee
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    Dude, this sucks. I signed up for a couple of instances, but that was my main one.

    So if it’s gone and unable to come back are all those comments and posts we made there just gone?

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      The data for the communities is stored on that server, so yes, but only for the content that was actually posted there. Any posts you made from that account will continue to exist on outside communities.

      Hopefully, it’s just a temporary failure.

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        I just wish I could access my account settings, which look like they are stored on the server instead of the app I use. I had already blocked several hundred communities that I wasn’t interested in and I don’t look forward to re-blocking them again (ok, maybe I look forward to it just a little bit, I might have a problem)

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          If vlemmy comes back up you can use this tool I made to pull down a list of subscriptions, blocks, etc. and if you want, copy all those to a new account:

          https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

          Obviously your comments, etc. are gone, but at least you can keep browsing uninterrupted from another instance.

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            Awesome. I will have to check that out and make backups if that server pops back up. Thanks.

            I assume once all these apps get fully fleshed out functionality like this will be added and automated into client software to make it easier. Backing up/load bearing would probably be something that could be federated among instances of different servers too to prevent things like this from having much of an effect on users, no?

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              The devs have definitely said there will be an official way to backup your account and import into another at some point, but I don’t think they’ve decided what exactly what would be like. Lots of possibilities with varying degrees of difficulty.

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                Yeah, it’s all a bit janky right now, but that’s kinda part of the charm. I like watching things grow and evolve.

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      I’m in the same boat. I’ve set up shop at lemm.ee just in case but I still like VLemmy and hope that it comes back online.

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          I was not on the Admin team, I did moderate the Chat community and I was active in Support but I wasn’t technically an admin. I had applied to be an admin, as pyarra the day before yesterday put out a post asking for admin applications, but then the server died and I’m not sure what happened.

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            Ah, sorry! Have noticed it a bit after posting my comment, that’s why it’s deleted. Yeah, you were only a mod of [email protected], but not the support one. And thanks for your participation on vlemmy and your help to newbies like me.

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              It’s no problem! I really like helping build new communities, and I was having a really good time participating on VLemmy. I’ll continue participating using lemm.ee and continue enjoying the platform and community, but I really hope that VLemmy comes back because I was happy with what we were building there.

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      i think the archive from that instance is gone, anything posted on other instances should be still there i think but anything posted locally is probably gone unless its still in the memory on other federated instances

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        I imagine this is just a dns/domain name issue and the server still exists with all its login info and data intact. If that’s the case we should just be able to change the settings in whatever client we’re using to the new domain name/ip address and everything should work like normal. Unless the server got nuked and there were no backups or something catastrophic.

  • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This is one of many reasons I tell people not to become overly attached to their Lemmy accounts. You don’t know what or who’s hosting your instance and it could just abruptly disappear overnight.

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      Honestly this is part of the reason I’ve been thinking of spinning up my own instance. Literally just so I have control of the instance my account belongs to.

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        That is why I did it! Not only for, let’s say, a service that stops, but also for the case where an Admin would decide to go in a direction I don’t want to go.

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          I’m hoping one day we’ll have federated account management as part of the Fediverse so that you don’t have to spin up a whole Lemmy instance and can create communities that are attached to that.

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      It will be good when there is an easy way to back up and restore your subs, your blocks and possibly even your comments. If you wish to change instances, it should be easy.

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        This would be great. I get the value of having instances be separated but starting over is a real pain.

        Maybe something about account creation: create the account only for this instance or create it for all/select number of instances? Even something like 5-10 instances “holding onto” your account could prevent things from disappearing without warning unless something really bad went down.

        Spitballing here, since my understanding of how this works is ehhhhhhhhh…

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      The problem with hosting your own instance is that you can’t create a community in another one.

      And since they are a central aspect of Lemmy, your experience can still suffer if the instance with one of your favorite communities goes belly up.

      Ideally communities should be fully distributed (i.e. not tied to a specific instance) to avoid these issues. Unfortunately, that would lead to its own series of challenges.

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      Just run your own instance, I say… that way it’s your fault when you forget to renew the domain name instead of the poor soul running vlemmy.

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      Well I’m not losing lem.monster because I’m not a fucking idiot.

      I wonder if something else happened

      • elkaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Probably it was something else since the donation links are down… Hope he isnt in some sort of legal trouble or something, and I dont want to think of worse scenarios of why everything would be shut down so abruptly

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      Indeed, I think number 15 if I remember correctly. I hope that it’s ok, it’s my home instance and is where I was posting the majority of my account content.

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        Same, I was helping set up a new community and we’d had some new people pop in and start commenting recently. This is a real bummer if its down for good.

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      What a weird way to go out, yesterday the owner was talking about how to proceed in the future and apologized for having to block an instance

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        I don’t wanna be that kinda person, but it’s possible the owner had some visitation from the local authorities. It’s not uncommon to use a server for multiple things, and I could imagine that there might have been some… not so cool things on there

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        Yeah I read through that post last night. My guess is they got spooked about being potentially liable for anything cached that they may have federated with and just pulled the plug.

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          The only reason I dont think that is the case is because the donation links are down. I still dont know what happened, I wish someone knew his mastodon or any other social media.

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      I did, on feddit.nl, to be able to post this :)

      Then I realized the feddit.nl domain was registered less than 2 months ago.

      Luckily I don’t care about upvote balance (if I did, I’d probably have stayed in reddit as a karma hostage), so I’ll just keep hopping instances if they stope working.

      • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.world
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        When I was still making personal websites ~10 years ago there were quite a few hobbyists who were providing free hosting on relatively big servers and I do remember they had dynamic IP addresses as they had the servers running in their homes and it was a bit painful to setup a domain name back then and you needed a dynamic DNS provider. So probably the fact that it’s redirecting to a dynu.com page is a good sign.

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    This is my main instance. Been solid for weeks since I signed up. I’m using my first from .one now. Not sure where to go for Q&A. Is there a Discord, Mastodon, Gangnam Style’s comment section on YouTube I can goto??

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      Store your markdown in a git repository. Link it up to VS Code, install a few markdown extensions to make writing easier and more consistent.

      You’re a markdown wizard Harry!

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    I thought the server must have been down or something since it’s weekend. Admin of that instance was asking for help regarding administrators for running the instance.