• 4am@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Hey guys not to be a downer but like…what DO we do when a federated instance goes down and takes all its content with it?

    • Ibuthyr@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      So this pretty much happened with feddit.de

      The admin took off for a business trip and his backup forgot the password and locked himself out. Now the admin seems to have vanished and the server shit itself, making all previously posted pictures unavailable.

      The solution is that a bunch of lemmings are forming a “Verein” (Kind of Like a club I suppose?) and will build an entirely new German instance.

      So, it’s not pretty.

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        5 months ago

        If someone hasn’t written a software package to do so already, it’s probably possible to write one to dump and clone all the comments and posts on a server.

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          5 months ago

          The comments fortunately are still there, but the images are all gone. They had some trouble that was image-related which led to the server collapsing at some stage. I can’t recall the specifics unfortunately.