charrondev@lemm.eetoGeneral Discussion@lemmy.world•We've grown an absolute shit ton of people the past day, insanely nuts to see how active World is.English
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1 year agoI have to agree here. I went through this same issue with Mastodon when I joined a smaller instance “mastodon.lol”. It shut down without any apparent notice to me (using a third-party app). I had to start from scratch and mastodon even has an account migration feature.
I can’t in good conscience tell a less technical friend “oh go use a smaller instance” when that means they can come across a dead-looking thread or community (that just hasn’t been federated to them yet) or suddenly lose their account when their instance disappears with little to no notice.
Actually it’s even worse than that. I tried yesterday to register on https://lemmy.ml but it let me go through the registration process up to the submit button before returning an error message “Registration Closed”.