I had an account on lemmy.one and now the instance has been down for a day or two so I made this new account. I also heard other small instances are dead or disappeared.

So which ones do you think will actually stick around for a long time?

ALSO, does anyone know how to get my subscriptions from lemmy.one and import it here? TIA!

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[–] Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I plan to bounce around anyway. The fediverse is great.

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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

hopefully the one I'm on, lemm.ee

[–] Cralex@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also joined lemm.ee after lemmy.one went missing. Wish I’d made backups of the communities I was following but it’s going well so far.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah really wish they had profile exports in Lemmy. But I also wish they let you create custom lists, like Reddit with the custom subreddit lists. I used that extensively.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 2 years ago

Me too, I still miss browsing by category rather than a jumbled mix of a frontpage.

Firefish does have it in two forms (Lists and Antennas), but it's not an ideal interface for general browsing of a forum-style site like Lemmy.

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[–] Gork@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I like it because it sounds cute. It also helps that the Estonia top level domain isn't as volatile as that of Mali's.

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[–] brad@toad.work 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

This is one reason that I think many people should consider running their own single-user instance or tiny instances for close friends/family.

One of the problems with centralization is literally the fact that this can happen. The more small servers the fedi is comprised of, the stronger it is. There are also a huge number of benefits to this configuration on an individual level as well.

EDIT: Re: importing/exporting your old account is, unfortunately, a thing that cannot be done currently. I'm happy to be corrected on that, though.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim allows to import subscriptions/blocked

[–] Wu9fee@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know how to code so I don't know how to run my own instance. 💀

[–] brad@toad.work 3 points 2 years ago

If it's ever something you want to try, it's one of the easier servers to self host and there's a lot of helpful resources out there. There really isn't any coding involved outside of editing a few configuration files unless you want there to be.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Smaller ones? Lemmy.world did not let me log in today

[–] Mookulator@wirebase.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It’s true that several instances (the ones hosted in Mali?) closed, but I think you’re premature in saying the smaller instances are disappearing, Lemmy.one included.

Sure, they’re bound to crash or go down for maintenance from time to time, but that doesn’t mean they’re finished. So far my experience has been that if you give it a couple days they’ll be back. Keep in mind these are shoestring operations and sometimes seeing major influxes of users.

[–] Wu9fee@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

I don't know. My friend was in another instance and he said it's gone now and went back to Reddit.

[–] kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Hopefully Lemmy.ca (one which we're both using). They're trying to become a not for profit company, plus theyre super transparent on server costs and how much money they have at the moment.

[–] genesis@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

kbin.social is well funded and will probably be around for many years to come

[–] density@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

where does it say well funded? the most salient thing I can see is

I have started each stage, but none is polished enough for me to honestly apply for a payout. I'll need to address this promptly.

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 2 points 2 years ago

Looks like they’re having database migration errors and possibly didn’t let them complete. They may have gotten scared after the upgrade and then downgraded. If they upgrade to the new version and just wait, they should be fine.

When I first launched mine, I had a couple issues and have learned quite a bit going through it. I say pay attention to who’s running whatever ones you’re looking at and you’ll have a pretty good idea on the longevity.

[–] i_lost_my_bagel@seriously.iamincredibly.gay 2 points 2 years ago

Mine's gonna stick around for as long as I use fedi

[–] Bosa@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

No one really knows but I'd imagine the bigger ones the you see now like world ml kbin and others would stick around.

[–] gabe@literature.cafe 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think mine will last for quite a while. Lemmy hogs so little resources, so long as I have my VPS it'll be up and running. Object storage is a potential in the future, but I am hopeful lemmy optimizes its image databasing as well. I am hopeful as lemmy grows my instance will grow as well as I feel there is a demand for a book/writing focused instance, but we will see. I'm gonna be here regardless.

[–] teuto@lemmy.teuto.icu 1 points 2 years ago

My interests line up pretty well with my admin. I think that the instance should be pretty reliable as long as I want to keep using Lemmy.

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