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Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed. (programming.dev)
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[–] philpo@feddit.org 16 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (2 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.

[–] philpo@feddit.org 10 points 2 hours 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.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Thanks for the summary! That sounds freaky!

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