Last week this instance decided out of nowhere that it deserves a break and vanished.
After multiple attempts of troubleshooting, I was about to put up a static html to announce the move away from “the broken ass lemmy”, when i figured out the real problem (nginx config was changed for some reason and no longer correct).
That being said, I still would like to move away from lemmy. At the time of setup, it was the closest to a reddit replacement we had available but by now nostr has matured a lot and it would be in everyones best interest to start building a community on there instead of a federated platform like lemmy on which you lose your entire online presence when the instance goes down.
If you have any suggestions on what specific nostr frontend we should host here on monero.town, please feel free to share them!
Personally id like to deploy an instance of https://monstr.land/ but sadly it is currently not FOSS.
Are you going to shut down the instance?
I think switching to some obscure platform is a bad idea, but if you want to do that, at least make a post with a list of alternative communities such as https://lemmy.cafe/c/monero and https://lemmy.ml/c/monero
I never loved the idea of hosting everything on one server, even in a federated system. I had asked on matrix before if anyone would want to but there was nobody willing to pick up hosting the instance. I don’t want all of this to depend on me and people to lose touch because I am unavailable. For now we will keep the instance up and running, at least till we find a suitable replacement software that is more decentralized.
Does it need to look like Reddit?
I am working on an ActivityPub client that doesn’t depend on a single server. Groups are planned, but the interface will be different from Reddit/Lemmy.