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[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Probably an incomplete list of feddit instances:

  • feddit.org (formerly feddit.de)
  • feddit.uk
  • feddit.nl
  • feddit.it
  • feddit.dk
[–] sour 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Really disappointed that italy doesn't have fedd.it

Especially since fedd.it redirects to feddit.it. Wow, now I'm actually disappointed.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago

At least it redirects to feddit.it.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's probably a more expensive domain and they might not have wanted to commit to that when it was still a small instance...

[–] sour 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's the same tld, they have the same recurring costs.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Same TLD ≠ Same costs if they took over from someone that sold the domain.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

feddit.ch was discontinued but active for a bit

[–] Object@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It lived up to its name I suppose.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

?

ch is the swiss country code and it was a swiss instance

[–] Object@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah, I meant how it ends in dit.ch and it got ditched soon.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

freddit?

yabba dabba do

[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Aw, a shared yearning: federated itch.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Don’t forget Switzerland!

[–] leaf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

• feddit.dk

• feddit.cl

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wait...feddit.de changed to feddit.org? What happened?

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The admin vanished unfortunately.

If I remember correctly, he went on some vacation late last year and said he wouldn't have internet, so he gave someone from the community admin permissions. But he didn't give them full access to the server or something like that, so when one day the hard drive had filled up and the instance was quite broken, there was no way to re-install and restore from a backup.

For a long time, the instance didn't allow picture uploads and we just hoped for the admin to return like:

Unfortunately, he didn't. Pretty sure, we still don't know what happened to him.

Well, then feddit.de was completely offline for a few weeks, and when it came back online, the community voted on a new domain name to use and a few folks coordinated on a Matrix server to set it all up.
When feddit.org was all online, moderators of the feddit.de communities put up notices that the community migrated, in case anyone finds out later. Some communities also migrated to https://discuss.tchncs.de.

It was certainly an interesting stress test for this whole federation thing. In theory, everyone could've just joined any other Lemmy instance and in theory, we could've just set up the same communities elsewhere. But in practice, you're hardly going to get all the same people into the same place without being able to coordinate.
It would've helped to spread out the communities beforehand, but that's also easier said than coordinated...

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

We very nearly lost feddit.uk to the same issue. The admin who set the instance up just went AWOL, I'm guessing he spun it up during the reddit exodus and then just lost interest in the project. Fortunately people managed to contact him and gave two people admin access to take over it.

Lessons learned: don't join an instance with a single admin.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Goddamn I can only hope he just forgot about the project as opposed to something bad happening to him.

[–] sam 2 points 1 week ago

I’m very new, so I’m not sure, but what I’ve heard is that the guy/gal that ran feddit.de had more important life things to deal with, so the community stepped up to create a new instance to replace it.