https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/freemediaheckyeah

Sorry if this is disappointing to any of you, but we have so few members here now, and so much stuff is still broken, that we don’t feel as though continuing is worth it.

However, /r/Piracy has their own Lemmy, and everything is working well on it, so we’re going to start directing people there instead, as they share our same values and goals. Thanks for the support guys and again I am sorry this didn’t work out. We wanted it to, but it just didn’t.

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I’d like to apologize to everyone for doing this on such short notice and not being able to get it stable. It’s been a fun ride but it’s clear that it ended a long time ago. I’ll see you all on db0.

Some more specifics:

  • The instance will lock registration and community creation on October 1st. There doesn’t seem to be a way to disable posts and comments rn so ig it’ll be left on. I’ll be keeping the instance up for the foreseeable future for archival reasons.
  • Frontends will be kept up.
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No need to apologize, you’ve done so much good for the community! Who would have guessed a major VPS would just go down “forever”.

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Who would have guessed a major VPS would just go down “forever”.

Fuck Mali. All my homies hate the Mali government.

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3 points

commiserations, and kudos for doing all you’ve done so far to try to keep it running

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Thanks for all you’ve done.

Would you mind helping db0 folks by telling them what you did to fix the missing thumbnails issue? They are struggling with that.

A couple examples of new posts with thumbnail in FMHY but missing them in db0:

  • https://old-lemmy.fmhy.net/post/950126 vs https://old.lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/4568756
  • https://old-lemmy.fmhy.net/post/949117 vs https://old.lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/4565942
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It was just a file permissions issue on my end after switching to Ansible, ran chmod -R a=rwx where pictrs was located. (This probably won’t help with db0.)

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See ya here 👋

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Unfortunate… I assume the loss of the old instance is probably what contributed to the decline in users here. I used your instance a good bit on and off while it lasted, it was great, easily one of the best on Lemmy imo. Rest in peace and thanks for your great work and dedication running it. 🫡

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Yeah, had my first account there and enjoyed it, but afterwards the closure and the down times after return leading to not knowing when the instance was up led to it dying. But, I’m glad the spirit lives for fmhy on db0.

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gg

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Why not just make a fmhy community on db0?

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Fuck yeah.

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Seconding this, create a community on db0. We’d love to have you guys here :)

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