We’re on the fediverse, you can create a community with the same name on another instance.
Most instances are well federated. So if it’s not on Lemmy.world it can be on feddit.de or sh.itjust.works it still works, and considering .world uptime issues, I would advise any other lemmy instance or even a Kbin instance to a newcomer
honestly even if .world had 100% uptime i’d still recommend spreading out to smaller instances. it’s a single point of failure for the entire network (or at least the parts of the network as seen by lemmy/kbin). bus factor and all
i personally hope that over time as the tooling improves (and as “turnkey” hosters like masto.host adopt lemmy), more topic-specific instances get started up. think of startrek.website or programming.dev or slrpnk or rblind or literature.cafe or all the country instances. and general purpose instances like .world and lemm.ee and sijw and what have you can be for smaller communities that don’t have the resources, or they can be used as “account holder” instances that have people but “outsource” the communities to their own respective instances to keep their own costs down.
everyone piling up on .world is hurting the entire network. (even worse when they create communities and those communities also pile up on .world) and it’s sad to see the .world admins refuse to acknowledge this and handwave it behind “well we’re still smaller than mastodon.social /shrug” (and yes i have complaints about eugen’s handling of mastodon.social/.online too)
Completely agree with you. I support a lot [email protected] for that reason, because I’m sure it has the potential to grow, and show an example of federation outside of the usual tech communities.
It would be nice to have a gaming instance as well, I always feel like content is scattered all over [email protected], the one on lemmy.world, the one on kbin.social, another one on lemm.ee, etc.
The thing is though, the instance your create a community from only really affects who you interact with to recover your moderation team if everyone goes poof. Otherwise the instance essentially serves as a vanity domain for the community (think email). It doesn’t matter if lemmy.world is down to me at all. I can still post to its cats community using my sh.itjust.works account just fine. Anyone that isn’t on beehaw will see my posts with or without the origin instance of the community being online (because beehaw is defederated with my instance).
you can still post to .world, but that post won’t leave your instance if .world is not up to boost it to every other instance subscribed to that community.
if you posted to a .world community from sijw while .world was down, i won’t see it until .world gets back up, gets the message from sijw (which will usually retry a few times before timing out), and boosts it to blahaj.
If someone staked a claim by starting a community, making it mod posts only and then going inactive, all thet need to do is contact the admins of that instance. As long as it’s not risky to reopen (some can give life and death advice and need careful modding) the admin can open it and make them a mod.
If it’s open and free to post then they can just start posting to it. They can contact the mod about possibly helping out and, if there’s no sign of activity, they can contact the instance admins.
And what’s the way to reinstate those communities? They might have very valuable names.
We’re on the fediverse, you can create a community with the same name on another instance.
Most instances are well federated. So if it’s not on Lemmy.world it can be on feddit.de or sh.itjust.works it still works, and considering .world uptime issues, I would advise any other lemmy instance or even a Kbin instance to a newcomer
honestly even if .world had 100% uptime i’d still recommend spreading out to smaller instances. it’s a single point of failure for the entire network (or at least the parts of the network as seen by lemmy/kbin). bus factor and all
i personally hope that over time as the tooling improves (and as “turnkey” hosters like masto.host adopt lemmy), more topic-specific instances get started up. think of startrek.website or programming.dev or slrpnk or rblind or literature.cafe or all the country instances. and general purpose instances like .world and lemm.ee and sijw and what have you can be for smaller communities that don’t have the resources, or they can be used as “account holder” instances that have people but “outsource” the communities to their own respective instances to keep their own costs down.
everyone piling up on .world is hurting the entire network. (even worse when they create communities and those communities also pile up on .world) and it’s sad to see the .world admins refuse to acknowledge this and handwave it behind “well we’re still smaller than mastodon.social /shrug” (and yes i have complaints about eugen’s handling of mastodon.social/.online too)
Completely agree with you. I support a lot [email protected] for that reason, because I’m sure it has the potential to grow, and show an example of federation outside of the usual tech communities.
It would be nice to have a gaming instance as well, I always feel like content is scattered all over [email protected], the one on lemmy.world, the one on kbin.social, another one on lemm.ee, etc.
The thing is though, the instance your create a community from only really affects who you interact with to recover your moderation team if everyone goes poof. Otherwise the instance essentially serves as a vanity domain for the community (think email). It doesn’t matter if lemmy.world is down to me at all. I can still post to its cats community using my sh.itjust.works account just fine. Anyone that isn’t on beehaw will see my posts with or without the origin instance of the community being online (because beehaw is defederated with my instance).
you can still post to .world, but that post won’t leave your instance if .world is not up to boost it to every other instance subscribed to that community.
if you posted to a .world community from sijw while .world was down, i won’t see it until .world gets back up, gets the message from sijw (which will usually retry a few times before timing out), and boosts it to blahaj.
Talk to the instance admins, and put a case to be the mod
Don’t they still exist, they’re just quiet?
Exactly - they haven’t disappeared.
If someone staked a claim by starting a community, making it mod posts only and then going inactive, all thet need to do is contact the admins of that instance. As long as it’s not risky to reopen (some can give life and death advice and need careful modding) the admin can open it and make them a mod.
If it’s open and free to post then they can just start posting to it. They can contact the mod about possibly helping out and, if there’s no sign of activity, they can contact the instance admins.
Correct. They’re still there