As most of you may have heard, vlemmy randomly vanished.
I had started a few communities there. Is there a way to migrate them to a new instance (ideally along with their posts/subscribers/etc).
Thanks!
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Let me know the communities as we might have the content cached.
Headphones, Quake_Champions, Apple_Music, and Classical_Music
You might be able to recover some content if some other instances have it cached, but subscriptions are gone, users will have to re-subscribe.
That’s basically what I had to do. View the vLemmy community from another instance’s account and copy what I could over.
Really a bummer.
Unfortunately, no.
I don’t think it was completely random.
If you’re starting communities on an instance strongly consider its moderation stance and local laws.
Hey, since this whole thing is new to me, can you explain what happened to vlemmy?
Well, it’s pure speculation, but things line up. I’ll try to find the links but essentially the day before it went down he posted this.
And it was hosted in his home.
So either he got in trouble or understandably got scared and decided to nuke it all.
Essentially he had a very open federation policy without being fully aware of his local laws and that led to something and we’ll probably never know exactly what.
Not only that, depending on what ended up on their home machine and how scared they got, they may never want to openly acknowledge that vlemmy was theirs out of fear that something gets linked back to them. They could very well be here now posting etc without any interest in revisiting vlemmy and what ended up on their machine.
We’ll never hear back from vlemmy … and ultimately that’s probably a good thing, though I hope the admin is doing ok.
