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Does anybody know what happened to lemmy.villa-straylight.social? (unilem.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It was my home to my account. I didn't catch any announcement it would be going down. 2 weeks ago the website started throwing errors (50* internal server errors) and since a week it is completely unreachable. There are still DNS records resolving the domain, but the site seems completely gone.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

saw like 15 instances dying

Looking at the Nodes chart on The Federation it appears we've lost almost 200 instances in the last month. It's easy to imagine a lone admin running out of time, money, or interest, or simply not wanting CSAM troll posts federated to their server.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder how many of those were single user instances. I've seen a lot of people on here running their own instance just to host their own account and no communities.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you even run a self-instance just for an account that doesn't actually store anything from the communities? Or does Lemmy not support out of the box?

Like, if you really just want to have your own account, you don't need to duplicate all that federated content. But if there's no way to prevent it, then you're forced to use up all that storage and I can see people just opting to disconnect after a while.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah but it's only content for communities you sub to. I've been running this instance since about 2 weeks after the rexodus and I'm sitting at about 14GB.

That being said I would like some additional tools to manage data retention.

Edit: 14 GB not 25.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

currently sitting at ~50gb with a few users and cummunities after 2 months