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Off topic, but as you may or may not know, the largest/highest traffic lemmy instance, lemmynsfw went down about 2 weeks ago.
The two admins discuss what happened in this post:
https://ani.social/post/28177293
It’s been sort of recovered by one of the admins, but it only exists as an archive, or it will when that becomes available.
The surviving admin has created fedinsfw.app as a piefed instance because of much better moderation tools.
But content-wise, they’re starting from scratch.
That makes me wonder what’s the bus factor of ani.social 🤔
AFAIK, it’s just hitagi since gaen is a bot. More admins wouldn’t necessarily solve the issue that lemmynsfw faced since it had to do with billing on their infrastructure. I am an admin on a couple other instances, even with ssh access, but don’t have access to the billing side of things. That is a big jump up in trust I think that many are hesitant to make.
I feel for lemmyposter, it’s not a great situation to be in. I sit in a couple matrix channels with them and they have been fighting all the gremlins while trying to spin things up. I do think it is funny that fedinsfw has now shot up to be (I think) the second most populous piefed instance in the span of like two weeks.