IF we can persuade @tom to make one last effort to update to 0.19.1 then it’s possible to move your account to another instance. Obviously, the Feddit hosted communities would be run down. If we can’t as looks likely then you might be able to use third party software to transfer your subscriptions but it’s not reliable.

Agreed, there were signs at the start as well. I also think it went from being a fun hobby to real responsibilities as Lemmy grew.

The problem is that Tom has not been communicating. He’s the only one can do any upgrades and the only one who even knows where the server is.

We don’t even know if any backups are being done.

If we can somehow persuade Tom to do the update to 0.19.1 then it becomes easier to migrate.

I still hope that he will hand over the instance, so it can be run by the very kind volunteers.

I see v0.19.1 has been released.

I thought so too. Perhaps this is just to let people know that v0.19 has been released.

Oh I see, have a look down the community for details. There’s lots of posts.

Very briefly, the sole admin went missing for several months. We were defederated and a plan was hatched to start a new instance. Then the sole admin re-appeared for a brief period and made two others admins.

But they don’t have access to the servers and can’t update the instance and sort out issues like the verification email problem.

So there was going to be a deadline for the old admin to sort stuff out. It needs to be soon as a new version of Lemmy is due which will cut off PWA clients if we don’t upgrade.

Nothing seems to have happened since then. It’s gone quiet on Matrix as well.

I don’t think anything has happened sadly.

Do you not know what Date the food is?

Thank you for the update and for all the hard work you’ve put in.

Glad you are okay.

Hey @[email protected] hope you’re okay. Is there any update for us?

Over on Matrix, it seems that Tom is still not around and still has the domain and hosting. It doesn’t sound like much has happened.

Emperor doesn’t seem to be around this community. But is active in other communities so hopefully will update us eventually.

I think that’s rather an important thing to work out. It’s all well having admins etc but no good if the instance goes away like happened with compuverse

So you’re going to have to migrate Feddit UK to a new server? That hasn’t gone well when other instances have tried it.

I also have concerns because it’s unclear who is paying for the hosting and managing the server itself. We could see a situation where the server goes down and Tom is not available. Do we know if the new admins have access to the server?

I don’t want to know Tom’s private situation. But I think a few of us have concerns about the continuity of Feddit UK.

Questions like:

Who is running the servers (paying for hosting etc)? Will the instance be kept up to date? (Is it only Tom that can do this)

It was always the case that the plans were a last resort and there was no way to migrate everything across.

Anyone can set up an instance so Quackhouse can still go ahead, that’s the benefit of federation.

This is the best news.

I’m relieved Tom is okay.

Thank you, great albatross and everyone else who has put so much effort into Feddit UK