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Following the other post, which lemmy.ml communities don't have alternatives on other instances? (reddthat.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Following the other thread (550 upvotes and 366 comments at the moment: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417), one of the complaints that people had what that some communities only exist on lemmy.ml and don't have alternatives on other instances.

Let's discuss this and see if we can organize together.

I suggest to have one topic per comment so that is is easier to discuss.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

https://libretechni.ca/ is also down on my site, is the site supposed to be up?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's back up! 🎉

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh nice! Only one admin though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Is one admin bad?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Single admin instances are fragile instances. One person is a single point of failure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But if the primary admin buggers off with the hosting and/or domain, doesn't that kill all instances?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not if the instance has a backup admin who can take over hosting, domain, etc, which most large instances do. Very small instances usually have a poor bus factor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

TIL

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If he decides to shut down the project, or something happens to him, the server will probably go down with him.

See vlemmy.net, lemmy.film, iusearch.fyi, and so on

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Aha, makes sense. Though my beloved tf went down and that had multiple admins at one point.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yep, I guess its having an outage. It's been fine for weeks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Who downvoted this? Why? 😵‍💫