The community on there had noticed months ago that the owner was inactive. This was around September (Going off of memory). So they arranged to set up a new community run by the same feddit.uk admins (except the owner, the only one who had host access) which would replace it. However, on the weekend as Quackhouse was going to be launched, the owner responded to an email and made two users admins. Emperor and GreatAlbatross. However, they did not have access to the console, just lemmy adminship. Ever since, the owner has been AWOL. The community were too afraid to go back to setting up Quackhouse incase the owner showed up again.

Unfortunately, that wariness and being afraid led to the worst case scenario happening - Feddit.uk has dropped offline. We believe the instance has reached some form of file size cap. It was basically an aeroplane flying with dead pilots before then. And it appears that aeroplane has crashed.

If you are from the feddit.uk refugee base, please join the new community whenever it is ready. Do not sign up now. We are busy and still setting up and don't want an influx of new users just yet.

For now, sit tight. I'll update this post whenever it's up and running and ready for sign-ups. I am not posting the name for now so we don't get overrun with sign ups. But we would love to invite you back to our community when it's set up.

The new community will have it's own unique identity that doesn't have to piggyback off of Lemmy and Reddit for it's name. But it will still aim to be the main UK lemmy instance that feddit.uk was. By all means, it will be a full lemmy instance, still federated, etc. It should be the same experience as feddit.uk. But we actually do have fun plans to create a nice sense of identity with that instance if all goes well! I will warn you, it does have a silly name, but that was the name that was decided upon.

We look forward to having new members. All are welcome, whether or not you were from Feddit.UK or not. We will have the theme be a UK-based lemmy instance.

I'll try and remember to update this post when we are ready.

~20CX12

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[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 113 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Sucks to see the flagship British instance go, but at the same time, I like the idea of all the Reddit references being confined to the past.

[–] 20cx12@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I agree. A big objection was if we became big, reddit might be able to sue us.

The whole aim of this new instance is actually trying to see if we can attract some people to come onto it without having to really know what lemmy is. Feddit.uk sounded like a reddit knockoff, and having to explain it sounded confusing. If we could spread the word about the new instance without having to mention federation, as to not be intimidating, people may see the content provided from federation and be happy anyway, and not question the inner workings until they are settled.

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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Has enough time passed for a Friendster reference to be ok?

Fedster.uk

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[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 75 points 2 years ago

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." - Feddit.UK

[–] Primarily0617@kbin.social 47 points 2 years ago

It was basically an aeroplane flying with dead pilots before then

aren't we all

[–] Vub@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Wow. If this isn’t a perfect example of the possible problems with federated networks I don’t know what is.

I’m still for it of course. But it has to be done right and this is far from that.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Twitter could go permanently offline tomorrow as well, for all we know.

[–] viking 27 points 2 years ago

I sure hope it does, nobody needs that cesspool.

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

It is looking increasingly likely that at some point it will just collapse.

[–] exocortex@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 2 years ago (4 children)

it is possible now to copy your data to another account on another instance.

in the future lemmy might even support something like having your account automatically backed up to another instance. Similar to a backup email address at your main email address.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's possible to backup your data, but you have to do it beforehand. There's no chance to save your data once the server goes down.

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

What data do you want backed up though ?

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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 4 points 2 years ago

Profile backup would be so cool! I'm super for it.

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[–] pbsds@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

All the instances that popped up during the reddit exodus were not that thought through. Once the feddiverse stabelize around sustainable communities it'll work better

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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 24 points 2 years ago

It's not a problem with federated platforms, it's a problem with any new platform.

Anything that's been around for less than a year is not too likely to stick around for a year.

Something that's been around for 10 years is likely to stick around for another year.

Time will filter out the instances that stick and the ones that don't. Users will go to the older instances because those are the ones they can trust to still be up for the foreseeable future.

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[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Shows once again that federation is useful since other servers are running and you could post that message.

On the other hand, sucks if you had your main account on that server because now you start from scratch. I am not even talking about your lost posts and comments, more about community subscriptions. Quite annoying to get that all in place again. I used to have an account on the fmhy.ml instance, it was not fun...

[–] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The answer, in time, is to have a P2P network of federated clients/servers.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So, Usenet. Coming full circle.

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, but now with more...AI.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 41 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If you leave it too long, folks will just register for another instance, and all momentum will be gone.

I wouldn't take too long getting the rescue boat out when folk are in the ocean....

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 20 points 2 years ago

Yes, it literally happened with FMHY's Lemmy instance. Lost access to the original domain, started again from scratch on a different domain, but their users didn't come back and already moved in to other instances.

[–] 20cx12@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately we had planned on getting the boat out before that happened. But it happened anyway. For now the instance seems to be back up, but this was a wake-up call.

[–] SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

My thoughts exactly; from a moderator standpoint it just doesn’t make sense to wait for another UK dedicated instance to open at an unspecified point in the future. It’s too much of an unknown quantity. If I need to move/copy the communities I moderate while I can still access them on feddit, I’m moving them now and to an established, decent sized instance - it’s my best chance of not having to do this again in the future.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As a fellow UK instance owner - gimme a shout if you need a hand with the setup!

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[–] AlexJD@feddit.uk 27 points 2 years ago

Somehow it's up

[–] kpw@kbin.social 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

feddit.uk seems to be online.

[–] Critical_Insight@feddit.uk 8 points 2 years ago

Can confirm

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

The UK has fallen billions must now lurk

[–] ButtonMcLemming@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Feddit.uk is now back up. I just checked as of now.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 14 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't get too excited just yet.

It came up a few times yesterday and quickly went down again.

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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago

I will warn you, it does have a silly name, but that was the name that was decided upon.

Damn, I was almost going to suggest some stuff. (chippym.uk - chippy, UK, a rodent...)

Serious now. I'm glad that federation means that people aren't putting all their eggs into the same basket; sure, feddit.uk going MIA is a loss, but just imagine if it was a non-federated platform. Hopefully the old users will be able to build their new home in the new instance.

[–] GreyShack@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the update and for the work in building the new instance!

I'll be keeping my eyes open for further news.

[–] stefenauris@pawb.social 9 points 2 years ago

Good luck and good work!

[–] squid_slime@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Will there be contingency to stop this from happing with other instances?

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Will there be contingency to stop this from happing with other instances?

That depends how each instance is set up, just like any other website.

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[–] 20cx12@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

We're making a contingency for the new instance

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

That's not how the fediverse works.

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[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 years ago

Good luck guys!

[–] ilovecheese@feddit.uk 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I will warn you, it does have a silly name

Why though? A catchy and memorable name, I understand, but why silly? Who wants to say to people they belong to the 'quackhouse' instance, or whatever?

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[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm on kbin.social but subscribe to unitedkingdom on Feddit - look like it is workinhg OK at the moment

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[–] weeahnn@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

yikes. hope this gets sorted out soon

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

I'm on kbin but liked a couple of the feddit.uk magazines, so it's a shame to see them go.. Will keep an eye out for updates, best of luck!

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