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We lost a real one (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 months ago by flamingos@feddit.uk to c/fedimemes@feddit.uk

All my nudes gone.

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[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 262 points 2 months ago

Admin that had access to the server went AWOL in October and now the server has died.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 150 points 2 months ago

If I had a nickel for every Lemmy admin of a big instance who went missing I would have two nickels.

[-] ramasses@social.ozymandias.club 55 points 2 months ago

Which isnt a lot but its weird its happened twice.

[-] sam@break3.social 32 points 2 months ago

What isn’t a lot but it’s weird it’s happened twice

[-] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Admins going missing and their instance disappearing

[-] dave@feddit.uk 10 points 2 months ago
[-] kratoz29@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

What is the other admin that went MIA?

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 14 points 2 months ago

@wintermute@feddit.de

He was the admin of feddit.de. I think he went on a work trip to SE Asia and was never seen again. First technical problems troubled the instance until nobody paid for the server and domain anymore. Now the new feddit.org is governed by a non-profit with multiple admins.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 45 points 2 months ago

Next the domain name will be for sale for like $2500. lmao

Hexbear flashbacks

[-] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

I did some rough math on this and that would be the least of the worries. The cost of hosting a nsfw instance would easily be $500-$1000 per month.

Which leaves me wondering if part of it going down was funding.

[-] GeraltvonNVIDIA@lemmy.ml 40 points 2 months ago
[-] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 101 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Absent with-out leave

Edit:

Realizing I should add more 🙂 means they left without saying they were leaving or when they'd be back. Term is namely used in the military iirc

[-] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 77 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It’s “absent without official leave”, meaning they don’t have permission from the chain of command to be absent from their post (which is literally just wherever they are supposed to be).

It’s not a matter of saying you’ll be gone and when you’ll be back, it’s a matter of having official permission to be away from your duties (aka leave). They won’t get you for it for being off-base in your free time, but if you are off-base on THEIR time, then you are AWOL. You can also be AWOL without actually going anywhere, like if you are sick and stay in bed without contacting your superior, or medical for a chit, very likely considered AWOL .

[-] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago

Ey, that makes even more sense :) thanks!

[-] MrShankles@reddthat.com 17 points 2 months ago
[-] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 months ago

Absent Without Official Leave

[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

I was assuming "AlWays OnLine"

This clears up some confusion

[-] roserose56@lemmy.zip 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I didn't know this.

[-] lena@gregtech.eu 21 points 2 months ago

Damn, is there anyone who could get it back online?

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 29 points 2 months ago

From what I know, no unfortunately.

[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Hack the server

[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago

The sheer risk of running NSFW servers in this post-OSA timeline, I wouldn't be surprised if they just homer-simpson'd into the bushes, and waited for it to all be over.

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