Agreed, there were signs at the start as well. I also think it went from being a fun hobby to real responsibilities as Lemmy grew.
Prking
joined 1 year ago
The problem is that Tom has not been communicating. He’s the only one can do any upgrades and the only one who even knows where the server is.
We don’t even know if any backups are being done.
If we can somehow persuade Tom to do the update to 0.19.1 then it becomes easier to migrate.
I still hope that he will hand over the instance, so it can be run by the very kind volunteers.
I see v0.19.1 has been released.
I popped over to Reddit for the first time since third party apps were cruelly shut down. It’s clear that Reddit has sunk to new lows. Obviously trolling and a marked decrease in the quality of content
I thought so too. Perhaps this is just to let people know that v0.19 has been released.
Oh I see, have a look down the community for details. There’s lots of posts.
Very briefly, the sole admin went missing for several months. We were defederated and a plan was hatched to start a new instance. Then the sole admin re-appeared for a brief period and made two others admins.
But they don’t have access to the servers and can’t update the instance and sort out issues like the verification email problem.
So there was going to be a deadline for the old admin to sort stuff out. It needs to be soon as a new version of Lemmy is due which will cut off PWA clients if we don’t upgrade.
Nothing seems to have happened since then. It’s gone quiet on Matrix as well.
I don’t think anything has happened sadly.
Probably about an hour.
IF we can persuade @tom to make one last effort to update to 0.19.1 then it’s possible to move your account to another instance. Obviously, the Feddit hosted communities would be run down. If we can’t as looks likely then you might be able to use third party software to transfer your subscriptions but it’s not reliable.