Not a fan of it by any means, but it shit down ~11 days ago and no one mentioned it.

Every link to something on the instance redirects to this: https://imgur.com/XpxDJTg

Since lemmy posts are links, every image post is now that image.

The admin (local account on lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/u/hamid@vegantheoryclub.org ) said it was because of the harassment culture on lemmy (https://lemm.ee/post/64686772 ), and blamed sunshine and beaver for doing something? (https://lemm.ee/post/63664605/20610349 – the post this is in reply to is gone, but the comment is in the local copy of the person’s profile.)

Anyone know what happened?

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
    95·
    28 days ago

    Admin always wanted it to be a small instance for friends, he was pushed into federating by sunshine

    What the fuck are you talking about? When did this happen, do you have a link? This is bonkers.

    sunshine, who is beaver and several others as well

    What others?

    I sort of hesitate to feed into made-up-from-whole-cloth Lemmy drama, which this definitely seems to be, but I’m giving you enough benefit of the doubt to at least ask for reasons for why you’re saying this stuff.

    • stopharrassment@lemmy.zip
      114·
      27 days ago

      This is true, it used to be a small whitelisted server. When Beaver/Sunshine/Ralimba and her compatriots caused a problem on lemmy.world I let them use my community. Sunshine then took it upon themselves to grow the instance and I regret allowing this. They set up a project in github, reached out to many admins to get endorsements in fediseer and spammed the fuck out of the communities with low effort blog posts. I wish this never happened, I will continue to set up a server for my friends. It will not be activity pub or federated with lemmy going forward.

    • toomanypancakes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      64·
      28 days ago

      I’ve talked to hamid outside of lemmy. I’m just sharing what happened as best as I can recall from a perspective that’s not Sunshine’s, since she’s already all over this thread and she was a factor in him deciding to shut it down.

        • toomanypancakes@lemmy.worldEnglish
          54·
          28 days ago

          I didn’t save them so I can’t recall specifics, but I’ve seen receipts. Sorry my info is kinda spotty, since I did ECT my memory isn’t the best.

              • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
                73·
                27 days ago

                I feel silly even asking this, but you didn’t by any chance “push” Hamid into federating when he just wanted it to be a non federated server, did you?

                You know what, forget I asked. I feel like I already know the answer to that question and toomanypancakes is just riding their own little dialectical go-kart, for their own ineffable reasons.

            • toomanypancakes@lemmy.worldEnglish
              66·
              28 days ago

              I don’t know what you want from me? Sorry I got treatment for depression? Believe me or don’t, I don’t really care, but that’s why he closed the server if you’re curious.

              • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
                104·
                28 days ago

                In most of the world as it should be, the process is:

                • Someone makes accusations against another person
                • Someone else asks why, backing behind the accusations
                • There is a response indicating the “why” because that’s a sensible thing to ask

                In toomanypancakes-world, apparently, it is:

                • Someone makes accusations against another person
                • How dare you I know I saw receipts but I can’t find them right now anyway I’m disabled so it’s not fair for you to ask that kind of thing but I’m certain that these outlandish accusations I am making are accurate

                I’m not asking you to apologize for seeking treatment. I’m asking you to back up the accusations you made. That’s a fair thing to ask you to do, and sidestepping into whining about how I’m oppressing your issues because I am asking for it is bullshit.

              • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
                82·
                27 days ago

                I was under the impression that he passed along the administration to the server to someone else, I guess he kept the keys to the server after all.