] > About the most robust and resilient instance, I’m not sure, monthly reports on [email protected] are pretty transparent and detailed. Other instances like sh.itjust.works have very high uptime as well.

Yeah, the reason I say that is because Sunaurus had setup something like 10 sub-servers (most of them non-redundant) running the instance, at a cost of ~US$200/mo. I can’t pretend to be any expert in such stuff, but my perception is that (rather famously unlike certain other instances) it was overall beautifully able to handle massive influxes of users, DDOS attacks, spam issues, outage issues, and whatever else. It also had a health-status link (now defunct) and I think maybe other user/server tools, as well.

So while I grasp the intrinsic, resilient nature of the FV, Lemm.ee to me was one of the strongest instances there was, and it can never be too good when such as those go down.

To me, it also kind of touches on certain problems of dead communities only getting conserved in ‘ghost states’ by the FV. I mean yes, you can still see them if you know how to look, but they can’t be interacted with, and they’ll never pop up in any feeds. They won’t disappear, but I’m pretty sure that very few people are going to bother visiting them unless the content is absolutely stellar.

Another issue apart from that is that even when the content can be migrated to another instance, nobody can say with any certainty that such instance won’t crash, either. There’s also the fact that now that EGN’s stuff is mostly migrated (with ~160 postings lost), I can’t actually edit any of it even as the community owner. So personally, it’s another big chonk of work trying to patch up any content that has aging issues… such as Imgur content needing to be re-uploaded, info updating, and/or links needing to be fixed. I.e., I’ll need to delete, rework and re-launch so many of those aging posts when I’d much rather be focused on creating new content.

So from my POV, the situation is still a bit fraught, with the most obvious thing seemingly being migration tools needing to be improved, and community-owner tools needing a little more power. Now over on Reddit, people could say something like ‘yeah yeah, I sold my soul to Spez, but at least we don’t have any of those issues.’

So maybe if and when Reddit sets itself on fire again, the FV can be better-prepared to persuade users over. (knock on wood)

/rant?

My sense is that the article (and people in general) are dismissing the loss a little too easily. Here are my thoughts:

• IIRC it was the #3 instance by size in the entire FV. That’s not nothing, and a lot of people were no doubt impacted.
• It was probably the most robust and resilient instance across the entire FV.
• The site-runner was a real pro at technical matters, and notably helped other instances deal with tech issues early on.
• The reason why the place went down, i.e. burnout and harassment across it’s admin team, is something to be concerned about across the FV going forward. It’s also something of an argument that for-profit social media networks (such as Reddit) have some key advantages over volunteer-based, FV-style networks.

Danke, mein Freund, and we seem to have some similar traits & interests. I’ve subscribed to your “Demos” community, and hope I can maybe contribute in future. 🤓

Okay, what think about it now?

I’ve put the link in the banner / description, as well as added it to the stickied ‘move post.’

@[email protected]

Happy to have you, once again! ^^

There is indeed such a post (as you should be able to see?), but the link is in the body of the post (several times), not as a direct hotlink.

The issue I’ve always had with the standard Lemmy software is that it allows either a hotlink or an image in the ‘URL’ field, but not both. Take a look if you have a minute and let me know what you think, please?

Ruh-roh. Does lemmy.cafe have a content migration feature as well?