- https://lemmy.film
- https://unilem.org
- https://lemmy.ninja it’s back
- https://lemmy.cafe/ it’s back!
- https://lemmy.perthchat.org/
- https://pathfinder.social/
- https://wayfarershaven.eu/
Are there others?
Also, it seems like a lot, does anyone know why they all went down at the same time?
Long term it might be better to get some existing organizations involved in some of these niche use cases. There are non profits out there operating in different industries and they would have the momentum and support to keep instances going, as opposed to a single person running an instance locally.
For the general purpose instances I don't feel as bad (it sucks, but there's more out there). For the topic based ones, it's harder to migrate those communities to something else and it's not great to have everything on one instance
Definitely.
I'm surprised that besides the SDF and KDE social there aren't many FOSS non profit who started a Lemmy instance, while Mastodon seems quite mainstream now
My old instance lemmyrs.org went down and it's because the admin didn't have enough time to deal with an upgrade problem. They were talking about having Hackyderm help out/take over but that clearly didn't go anywhere.
Having some kind of escrow where the DNS/server could be stored for these single-admin instances might be a good idea.