Certainly has me concerned. I’ll have to investigate a bit more into the financial solvency of the company to better understand whether they are at least covering bills and such… but honestly sounds like they aren’t and haven’t been.
Going to need to start looking for alternative S3 type storage.
GeekRoom.Tech hosted in Ashburn, Virginia, USA.
I’ve got qbit running in the following configuration…
Core i5-8500T hardware > proxmox > Ubuntu virtual machine > docker > qbit. Currently seeding nearly 500 torrents and using less than 4gigs of ram. Qbit itself is running on ssd, while all torrent files are running on hard drives over SMB share. Something is up with your system.
That or they have failing hardware or really bad upload or something. Maybe they’re using a bad client or something. Seems odd for sure.
Most likely they’ll end up getting rid of that section. So I suggest anyone who is looking to keep that music alive start hoarding them if they haven’t already.
I’m part of a private tracker and am hosting some low seeder torrents all the time.m using my servers. If you want I can download them from you, set them to their own category so they don’t get removed and just seed them for ya. Feel free to message me.
These are some concerns I’ve had too, but I think there’s progress being made.
Currently, it seems for the account migration/duplication is a self hosted effort but something that I’ve been looking into making a site for.
As for the long term viability of these instances, I would say it’s pretty rare that a bigger instance run by good admins go down frequently. The costs aren’t usually that high and can be managed fairly easily. From what I’ve seen, these instances are usually donation-based “monetization” so if no one donates its on the instance owner to eat the costs. In theory, one could make some sort of membership based instance, but I haven’t seen anything like that. I’ve seen discussions that if an instance was to start running ads that users would leave immediately… and that’s certainly their choice. It just makes it difficult if an instance is growing but does not have any contribution from the community to run the instance.
However, when the instance that people have registered on goes down, yes, they lose their progress, comments, history, etc… there is no way to transfer that to another instance.
Currently, there is only a way to move subscriptions, that I’m aware of.
As for the list of instances… that should be “unique” per instance, because that is the list of instances that are federating with the instance you’re looking at. So usually it’ll show the federating and blocking instances. So as long as at least one account is subscribing to those instances from your instance, it’ll show up there. Larger instances don’t necessarily need to seed their federation, but it’s common for new instances to seed federation and to start getting material out to the rest of the Fediverse.
How long does it take for that to happen? lol Seems like if an instance is a million activities behind that at some point way before then, Lemmy would stop trying to send activities.
I’m asking for myself too as occasionally I’ll see an instance or two that’s gone down and my instance keeps trying to to post to it…
I never stopped using it. There are privacy issues with all browsers. I like how Firefox works, but I regularly end up using Firefox, chrome, and edge all at the same time. I use them for some compartmentalization of my tasks and work lol