I had an account on lemmy.one and now the instance has been down for a day or two so I made this new account. I also heard other small instances are dead or disappeared.
So which ones do you think will actually stick around for a long time?
ALSO, does anyone know how to get my subscriptions from lemmy.one and import it here? TIA!
The ones with the most porn
I wonder how donations for nsfw instances are going
People love to talk about porn. But do they pay for it in a context where it’s expected to be free?
My interests line up pretty well with my admin. I think that the instance should be pretty reliable as long as I want to keep using Lemmy.
Looks like they’re having database migration errors and possibly didn’t let them complete. They may have gotten scared after the upgrade and then downgraded. If they upgrade to the new version and just wait, they should be fine.
When I first launched mine, I had a couple issues and have learned quite a bit going through it. I say pay attention to who’s running whatever ones you’re looking at and you’ll have a pretty good idea on the longevity.
Hopefully Lemmy.ca (one which we’re both using). They’re trying to become a not for profit company, plus theyre super transparent on server costs and how much money they have at the moment.
I guess instances run by SDF. They’ve been around since 1987 when they started with BBS. And since 1991 they are running the public access UNIX system. They also have Mastodon servers, Minecraft server and other stuff. These are their Lemmy instances:
lemmy.sdf.org - somewhere in US
lemmy.sdfeu.org - Falkenstein, Vogtland, Germany
lemmy.sdfjp.org - Tokyo, Japan
lemmy.sdfcn.org - Hong Kong
lemmy.sdfin.org - Mumbai, IndiaCool! I’ll sign upf or one.
Yeah. Good list.
I ain’t got nothin better to do so might as well run a server forever
Out of the loop, what happened to Lemmy.one?
Seems to be down, I haven’t heard any news but can no longer log in
Website seems to still exist, maybe they’re doing some involved equipment upgrade.
Some people are speculating a database error, because apparently 0.18.3 requires a database migration to work, here’s the other post I just saw about this: https://lemdit.com/post/262746
That makes sense, maybe there’s hope for it.
I think probably this is it. Db upgrades are scary as hell.
It’s true that several instances (the ones hosted in Mali?) closed, but I think you’re premature in saying the smaller instances are disappearing, Lemmy.one included.
Sure, they’re bound to crash or go down for maintenance from time to time, but that doesn’t mean they’re finished. So far my experience has been that if you give it a couple days they’ll be back. Keep in mind these are shoestring operations and sometimes seeing major influxes of users.
I don’t know. My friend was in another instance and he said it’s gone now and went back to Reddit.
I’m pretty happy with kbin.social. It’s a nice place, with several devs actively looking at making the experience better, it just takes a while being an open source project and all
No proper mobile support kills it for me
There’s a mobile app in the works, Artemis. Things will be a bit better when the site gets official API support and more services can connect to it
Lemmy.world
.world gang
I kinda hope transferring data between two accounts on two different instances is easy. I don’t really want a fresh start for the 13th time (this happened years ago outside of the fediverse, mostly thanks to forgetting my password).
No one really knows but I’d imagine the bigger ones the you see now like world ml kbin and others would stick around.
Same with aussie.zone and other country spesifc instances
Also aussie.zone, checking in
Aussie.zone here, mount up
Aussie.zoners, mount up.
Lenny.ca, hopefully. 🤞
I don’t want to figure everything out again.
Me too. 🥹
As long as lemmy remains popular there will be new servers/instances popping up. I found my start on lemmy quite rocky with servers vanishing sometimes with notice and then others just vanishing without notice, Anyway I quickly adapted and began to keep a list of communities I like to frequent while this list is still small I’m sure by the time it starts to become an issue there will be tools that make it a non issue.
I’ve started becoming more nomad in my use of lemmy compared to somewhere like reddit where I had just one account for eight years I just open a new account with the knowledge that it’s not permanent it doesn’t belong to me and there will be a time when I need to move on.
