We have a problem over at feddit.uk, the sole admin has gone missing and no one has been able to contact him. All we wanted is for a few more people to be made admins then problems could be solved. A new server/instance is going to be created and hopefully everyone on feddit can move over. Unless the admin comes back, it will fall behind in updates and become defederated. This happened once a few weeks ago by lemmy.world but we managed to convince them it was in error and they federated us back in.

The initial enthusiasm is wearing off.

Check out these graphs (scroll down) https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy. They don't show October yet, but there are some downward trends visible.

lemmy.film is still down, I miss my daily film content 🙃

My guess is just that interest has been lost. The admin at pornlemmy.com is even trying to sell it off to someone.

Hundreds of small instances have disappeared in the last few months. If The Federation was still working I could scrape the current list of instances and identify ones that have appeared/disappeared since I last scraped it in July.

https://lemmings.world seems to be alive but doesn't fully load for me before the connection times out.

Here are a few down instances that I found manually:

• https://oceanbreeze.earth
• https://geddit.social

Just noted that the following seems down as well

• https://lemmy.cafe/
• https://lemmy.perthchat.org/
• https://pathfinder.social/
• https://wayfarershaven.eu/

I'm new here and quite liking it, but I have to say, the constant "it's not working out" messages in these posts make me not want to engage as much. No one likes to invest in a downward trend.

Maybe the community needs to be a little more enthused, and it will keep newer folks around?

It’s always the small instances full of passion.

There's an AWS issue apparently. Any chance that's what's going on here?

There was a disruption of Service on lemm.ee a few hours ago, but it's back now

lemmy.cafe working for me right now.

Long term it might be better to get some existing organizations involved in some of these niche use cases. There are non profits out there operating in different industries and they would have the momentum and support to keep instances going, as opposed to a single person running an instance locally.

For the general purpose instances I don't feel as bad (it sucks, but there's more out there). For the topic based ones, it's harder to migrate those communities to something else and it's not great to have everything on one instance

Yeah my Lemmy.ninja account stopped working a few days ago. No clue why, or even where to look to find out. I hope it wasn't just lack of funding because I gladly would have donated.

Just noticed my ninja account is working again!