• jsveiga@feddit.nlOP
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        1 year ago

        Well, not being owned by a profit-driven evil stab-us-in-the-back company going IPO has advantages and disadvantages :-(

        • can@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          How bad could the bill have been? Was there any prior mention of server costs/donations before this?

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            1 year ago

            I don’t think it is a payment issue. At least in Brazil (where I live), a registration (which can be done directly with the .br registrar, not necessarily third parties) costs less than 10 USD a year.

            vlemmy.net was registered less than 2 months ago, for 5 years. I suppose (hope) it was already paid for 5 years.

            it’s strange that it’s parked at a dynamic dns service though

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        1 year ago

        Really weird.

        dynu.com is a dynamic dns service. I don’t think the maintainer of vlemmy.net would be running the instance from a dhcp (variable) IP, to justify using dynamic dns.

        Or is it usual for people to run instances from their homes using common ISP subscriber variable IP addresses?

        Even more strange that it was registered just last month, according to whois. Is vlemmy.net that new?

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          1 year ago

          Aren’t many of these instances a product of the reddit migration? I don’t expect the one I’m on to be much older.

  • Stijn@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    New anxiety unlocked:

    1. Open Mastodon / Lemmy client
    2. Find it eternally spinning
    3. Slight panic

    First time on Mastodon it turned out to be temporarily, new with vlemmy, I fear for the worst.

  • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This is one of many reasons I tell people not to become overly attached to their Lemmy accounts. You don’t know what or who’s hosting your instance and it could just abruptly disappear overnight.

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      1 year ago

      Honestly this is part of the reason I’ve been thinking of spinning up my own instance. Literally just so I have control of the instance my account belongs to.

  • Ilikecheese@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Dude, this sucks. I signed up for a couple of instances, but that was my main one.

    So if it’s gone and unable to come back are all those comments and posts we made there just gone?

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      1 year ago

      The data for the communities is stored on that server, so yes, but only for the content that was actually posted there. Any posts you made from that account will continue to exist on outside communities.

      Hopefully, it’s just a temporary failure.

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        1 year ago

        I just wish I could access my account settings, which look like they are stored on the server instead of the app I use. I had already blocked several hundred communities that I wasn’t interested in and I don’t look forward to re-blocking them again (ok, maybe I look forward to it just a little bit, I might have a problem)