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[โ€“] Kris@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

Slrpnk.net is unexpectatly back online ๐Ÿฅณ

[โ€“] philpo@feddit.org 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Don't pull a feddit.de on people, alright?

[โ€“] squaresinger@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What exactly happened there? It was the big thing, then I didn't use it for a month or so and then it was gone.

[โ€“] philpo@feddit.org 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The admin basically ran it as a one man show with only one other admin who had very limited privileges. He then went on a "business trip" or workaction or longterm vacation - there were different stories. Anyway, the database went belly up, the other admin couldn't do a thing and none could contact the admin. There are some rumours that he wasn't who he claimed he was and actually was a Chinese national who simply returned home, but who knows that. As a matter of fact none had any meaningful contact with him for months then and it appears he did not return. (But is alive)

A Austrian NGO who amongst others does host some mastodon instances,etc. took over and now feddit.org is on a very productive, professional and transparent level.

[โ€“] squaresinger@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Thanks for the summary! That sounds freaky!

Well, the trade-off between trusting a huge corporation or a single dude on the internet.

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[โ€“] Gsus4@mander.xyz 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

What is so special about piefed? I see a few communities moving there. The interface looks different from the original lemmy interface.

[โ€“] PirateFrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Our sysadmin explained some technical advantages here: https://feddit.org/post/13613230/7063696

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[โ€“] Kris@feddit.org 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

For regular users there is not a huge difference, but the web-interface is significantly faster and you can subscribe to topics that combine multiple communities. The disadvantage is less mobile app support. Right now only Interstellar supports Piefed.

The real advantage is for moderators and admins, as the Piefed developers actually listened to community feedback and implemented a lot of nice moderation features that require bots or annoying work-arounds on Lemmy.

And there are a few technical differences that make Piefed easier to administrate and troubleshoot from a sysadmin perspective.

[โ€“] Gsus4@piefed.social 4 points 6 days ago

Well, you can add flairs :)

[โ€“] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[โ€“] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Maybe is vacationing in United Kingdom

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[โ€“] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 6 days ago

That sucks.

I'll be back when they get back up.

[โ€“] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"unforseen hardware failure"

somebody didn't check their backups!

[โ€“] Kris@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The backups are most likely fine ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

yes, that's why it's been down for this long...

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