As you reading are undoubtedly aware now, the Lemmy.one instance experienced a massive failure this weekend. Unfortunately the data was not in a recoverable state, so the server was restored from a July 26th backup, and data after that time is likely lost.

Since this occurred while I was out of town, I haven’t had the time to collect all the details of what happened, so I will have to post more information at a later time.

  • monty@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Does anyone know why this is still showing up at the top of my “active” feed?

  • ViciousTurducken@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    My biggest concern was that there was no way to find information about what was going on. Your Mastodon had no information.

    There was a thread on Lemmy support about it and some people thought the instance was gone forever.

    • dill@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Yeah really would be good to have a separatly hosted status page or something, but I understand that is a luxury. Considering Jonah has freely volunteered to host it’s hard to complain.

    • DidacticDumbass@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I got confused, and ended up making an alternative account in another instance. Glad Ido not have to worry about it, but redundancy is a virtue.

      • NightOwl@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        2 years ago

        With each day with no news I started considering making another lemmy account in case this one didn’t come back. I didn’t know which one to make my new home though, since I liked privacyguides run one the best.

  • aname@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Thank you for your work! No one is expecting you to be always available, considering this is voluntary work you are doing.

  • BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Thanks for all you do! Can someone (either you or someone that knows) post a link to your funding page? I’ve been meaning to set up a donation since this is my preferred instance but haven’t got around to it. Missing it all. Weekend is a good reminder!

  • Melody Fwygon@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Thank you for your hard work none-the-less.

    I had a feeling it was just that. I heard rumbles about some type of issue in the lemmy software itself; although I don’t know the exact details. It appears similar problems happened to other instances as well; so don’t take it too hard…several massive instances did in fact crash.

  • s_s@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Glad to be back; Thanks, man!

    What’s up with browsing lemmy.world? Did it de-federate from us here or is it a syncing issue?

    [Edit]Fine now

  • DrVortex@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    And there is lies the point of failure. If we generate posts and so on…will they also disappear if a particular lemmy server disappears?

  • diskmaster23@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Is it me, or are some of our comments missing? I feel like I made some comments on another server, but they are not there. I guess I don’t understand how this works.
    By the way, thanks for your help.

        • PeachMan@lemmy.oneEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Maybe because that server synced with this server, assuming this is your home instance. If the comments aren’t on any record here, they might get deleted from the other server.

          Option 2: you attempted to make those comments but they never went through because this server was already having problems. So they never truly existed on the other server?

          I’m just guessing, I don’t know how the hell this fediverse stuff works.

  • Jordan Lund@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Welcome back! We were all terribly worried about the outage and the radio silence. Thanks for posting up an explanation!