Lemmy could do a lot better job of showing that a community is on a dead instance. Here's an issue about warning when posting to defederated instances, which could be considered the same issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2680

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

It definitely could. Can instances lock down remote communities?

@kersploosh@lemmy.world maybe?

[–] m_f@discuss.online 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't see a way to simply lock it down as an admin. I see "Remove" and "Purge community" which both seem to be too nuclear, I assume they'd delete the comm history too.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 weeks ago

That's unfortunate

[–] Nothing4You@programming.dev 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it's doable but it might be necessary to become a mod first, which admins should be able to in remote communities as well iirc. it's just that their mod actions won't federate.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

Would probably be enough

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I really need to tell you how much I like your profile picture. Does Lemmy allow the use of GIF?

[–] m_f@discuss.online 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks! Yeah, Lemmy allows for GIFs. Maybe they shouldn't, because of people like me :)

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 2 points 4 weeks ago

Oh no! They should. It is so cool. You stand out in conversation, not just because it is moving but because that is a very nice profil picture.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Oh got dammit! Are there any other instances you know of that's down for the count?

Also, fucking fuck GoDaddy, almost 5 grand now‽ Effectively ensures no one else can start an instance at that domain either >:(

[–] Nothing4You@programming.dev 2 points 4 weeks ago

you shouldn't reuse domains on the fediverse for a new instance anyway, subdomains are fine though: https://programming.dev/comment/14173239

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Are there any other instances you know of that’s down for the count?

Well, yiffit and Lemmy.autism.place are going out soon, but that should be it. Maybe we should have a community with archived instances

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

While scrolling to find my posts on lemmy.film to crosspost elsewhere I checked in on some posts on !startrek@possumpat.io and apparently possumpat.io is shutting down soon to :(

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

It is indeed

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Are there any other instances you know of that’s down for the count?

For a while people were still posting to the lemmy.world copy of synthwave@waveform.social even though waveform.social died. So someone just made a "this community is dead" post.

https://lemmy.world/c/synthwave@waveform.social

edit: there used to be a lemmy.villa-straylight.social instance as well which had a cyberpunk community on it. The corpse: https://lemmy.world/c/cyberpunk@lemmy.villa-straylight.social