lots of German speaking channels with several hundreds and thousands of members but no content whatsoever, some of them with no posts for the last 6 months…
what happened?
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Communities on feddit.de won’t update 'cos the instance is kaput - the replacement is https://feddit.org/
Sigh, does that mean I have to block that entire instance as well?
Are there any active english communities there?
Most of their communities look to be German, but their biggest one - !europe@feddit.org - is English language only
You can just hide all German language posts in your settings.
Doesn’t really work when 99% of posts are marked undetermined.
Nein!
My feed is filled with this every day…I don’t understand 99% but love it
I’ve seen many German memes here today.
Feddit.de was big but I don’t see it much anymore. Communities got big in the reddit exodus last year, but you have to keep nurturing them for them to catch on. I’d suggest trying to revive them by posting. Over time they’ll start to grow again
As someone else said, feddit.de is dead and has been superseded by feddit.org. The original instance has unfortunately been abandoned by its owner.
The owner should pass the torch rather than let it die.
The owner vanished and the other Admins miss the ssh keys to be able to migrate it. Also feddit.de had a partially fried database after a disk ran out of space
Seriously, what’s up with owners vanishing? Kbin.social, Kbin.run, feddit.de?
Not even a message saying something like “this project is taking up too much of my time, bye everyone.”
It wasn’t like that. The owner went on a long vacation during which the server’s disk ran full, the database was corrupted as a result, and the backup was overwritten with a corrupted state, before the owner returned.
feddit.org was created as a community effort to keep that from happening again.
Plenty of others too: vlemmy.net, iusearch.fyi, lemmy.film.
That’s why people should pay attention to a few things when looking for a server
- are there at least two admins?
- are they communicating regularly, including on their finances
- is there a Matrix chat or another way to reach out to them
I’m very sad about kbin, I eve told Ernest that I’d volunteer with some admin work and potentially code (even if I despise PHP), but he declined, even when his health went really bad.
Well, my experience is running a large lemmy server is pretty annoying and takes a lot of time to actually turn into a social media site with people instead of just bots and you don’t see any improvement for long times. I think after the reddit thing happened technical minded people were able to quickly launch this software but it isn’t what you expect and you eventually stop logging in.
The early internet also had personal website vanishing or being abandoned all the time. Static webpages don’t need constant maintenance but it’s more noticeable when it’s a community.
The owner started a new life as a yoga instructor in Pyongyang.
Absolutely. I don’t know much about the situation but it seems like the owner had some personal issues and just went radio silent on everyone up until someone made the new instance. The whole situation was definitely mishandled
Maybe the owner died before they could oaas the torch ?
That’s the big thing. Posting content consistently is key to the survival of communities like this one
Came here to say this: The Fediverse is what you make it. If it seems slow, take a few minutes and make some posts every day.
