Did the official KDE lemmy instance die?
I noticed that the url https://lemmy.kde.social/ returns the error on the picture. Does anybody know what happened?
I have a bot that fetches news from kde feeds, I used to post things there, I guess I'll start posting them here.
Weird. The URL you have does that for me too, but my subscription link works fine as well as just searching the community and opening it.
It's a quirk of how Lemmy works that each instance has its own cached copies of every community that any user on that instance has subscribed to. So you can keep viewing old posts, even if the other instance hosting the community is temporarily down, or even doesn't exist anymore. It looks like the community was getting posted to almost daily until 18 days ago.
Yes, it has been dead for a long time
do you know if the kde team said anything about this? I think I'll ask them later.
I talked to carl schwan a couple of times when I still had an account there and I noticed the issues. sometimes login was not possible, then for weeks the instance did not update/sync with other instances and was therefore basically unusable. eventually I moved on
@FirmDistribution
We are having trouble with it. The plan is to take it offline for a while, find it a decent server and build it up from scratch to make it more reliable.
Please be patient, we have a lot of stuff going on.
Heey, thanks for the official response.
No worries, I just got worried, thought something might've happened.
@FirmDistribution
We are not sure if it is our server that is not powerful enough (and server rent is super expensive right now, so upgrading is not something we can consider lightly) or there is a bug in Lemmy. Lemmy seems to be eating up too much RAM and freezes the whole system.
Anyway, with much regret, we'll have to take Lemmy off the list of services for now, until we find the time and resources to bring it back.
Maybe piefed uses less ram? It seems to federate without problems with lemmy.