Fediverse

I agree. A big objection was if we became big, reddit might be able to sue us.

The whole aim of this new instance is actually trying to see if we can attract some people to come onto it without having to really know what lemmy is. Feddit.uk sounded like a reddit knockoff, and having to explain it sounded confusing. If we could spread the word about the new instance without having to mention federation, as to not be intimidating, people may see the content provided from federation and be happy anyway, and not question the inner workings until they are settled.

Has enough time passed for a Friendster reference to be ok?

Fedster.uk

Twitter could go permanently offline tomorrow as well, for all we know.

it is possible now to copy your data to another account on another instance.

in the future lemmy might even support something like having your account automatically backed up to another instance. Similar to a backup email address at your main email address.

All the instances that popped up during the reddit exodus were not that thought through. Once the feddiverse stabelize around sustainable communities it'll work better

It's not a problem with federated platforms, it's a problem with any new platform.

Anything that's been around for less than a year is not too likely to stick around for a year.

Something that's been around for 10 years is likely to stick around for another year.

Time will filter out the instances that stick and the ones that don't. Users will go to the older instances because those are the ones they can trust to still be up for the foreseeable future.

The answer, in time, is to have a P2P network of federated clients/servers.

Yes, it literally happened with FMHY's Lemmy instance. Lost access to the original domain, started again from scratch on a different domain, but their users didn't come back and already moved in to other instances.

Unfortunately we had planned on getting the boat out before that happened. But it happened anyway. For now the instance seems to be back up, but this was a wake-up call.

My thoughts exactly; from a moderator standpoint it just doesn’t make sense to wait for another UK dedicated instance to open at an unspecified point in the future. It’s too much of an unknown quantity. If I need to move/copy the communities I moderate while I can still access them on feddit, I’m moving them now and to an established, decent sized instance - it’s my best chance of not having to do this again in the future.

I believe the idea behind different servers not meshing but federating, so they can have different focuses and different moderation stances.

This seems like a much better way, in many ways it would be more robust. There would be problems though... This would be even more vulnerable to EEE. Disputes/hostile action between servers could damage the whole website (I'm talking about maliciously hosting CSAM for example).

Yeah, unless I own all my own data, the Fediverse doesn't really solve anything. Sure, I could host a server just for me, but if everyone did that would it even work? Or would it collapse under the load of all the data whizzing about behind the scenes?

Can confirm

I wouldn't get too excited just yet.

It came up a few times yesterday and quickly went down again.

I assume no-one, including the feddit uk admins, can access the server to copy anything off it, so it will all be lost.

Will there be contingency to stop this from happing with other instances?

That depends how each instance is set up, just like any other website.

We're making a contingency for the new instance