- Ilikecheese ( @Ilikecheese@lemm.ee ) English26•1 year ago
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?
- henfredemars ( @henfredemars@infosec.pub ) English15•1 year ago
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.
- Ilikecheese ( @Ilikecheese@lemm.ee ) English17•1 year ago
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)
- TheSaneWriter ( @TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee ) English7•1 year ago
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.
- KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ ( @Kushia@lemmy.ml ) English25•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.
- jmcs ( @jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ) English3•1 year ago
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.
- wakest ( @wakest@lemmy.ml ) English19•1 year ago
this was rather a big instance no?
- TheSaneWriter ( @TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee ) English8•1 year ago
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.
- 001100 010010 ( @001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English14•1 year ago
Welp, that sucks, but on the bright side, you can always find a home in the vast fediverse.
- Goose ( @Goose@feddit.uk ) English14•1 year ago
- henfredemars ( @henfredemars@infosec.pub ) English9•1 year ago
Porkbun LLC is a DNS registrar, so maybe somebody didn’t pay their bill?
Well, not being owned by a profit-driven evil stab-us-in-the-back company going IPO has advantages and disadvantages :-(
- BionicSpud ( @bionicspud@lemmyverse.org ) English12•1 year ago
Doesn’t look good as the domain goes to a parked page.
It seems dynu.com is a dynamic dns service. Was vlemmy.net running from a variable IP (dhcp) address? Is that usual for lemmy instances?
- BionicSpud ( @bionicspud@lemmyverse.org ) English6•1 year ago
Not usually for an instance as big as vlemmy.net.
- hemmes ( @hemmes@lemmy.one ) English10•1 year ago
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??
- Encode1307 ( @Encode1307@lemm.ee ) English10•1 year ago
Time to build a new account I guess
- Ken27238 ( @ken27238@lemmy.ml ) English8•1 year ago
Damn that was the first instance that I signed up for.
I signed up for it just a few days ago (reddit refugee), it was working until earlier today.
I’ve just signed up at feddit.nl now, to be able to post this.
- Ken27238 ( @ken27238@lemmy.ml ) English4•1 year ago
Ya I’m on .ml right now.
- PixelPassport ( @PixelPassport@chat.maiion.com ) English7•1 year ago
Oops that’s not good, I can’t access it either
- Youthless ( @Youthless@lemm.ee ) English6•1 year ago
Another user here that had set up VLemmy as primary instance. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to back up subscriptions and how to do due diligence on an instance to make sure that it is more credible/stable?
I have relaunched on Lemm.ee, and want to make sure that I am prepared for this happening again!
- bba ( @bba@programming.dev ) English5•1 year ago
In addition to the other suggestions, I have just published lemmy2opml which allows you to export your subscribed communities to an OPML file. You can then import that file to a different account.
- Bison1911 ( @Bison1911@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English6•1 year ago
Welp… That was where I created the main account I was using.
- 299792458c137 ( @299792458c137@lemmy.sdf.org ) English6•1 year ago
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.
- Lemon ( @Lemon@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English4•1 year ago
Rip my main account I guess. Hopefully it comes back.
Edit: I don’t see it listed on join-lemmy.org atm
- 0nyxee ( @0nyxee@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
Bummer, had a second account I set up recently there.