During the Reddit migration, I made 2 accounts for myself. This account for research and one for actually being active on lemmy. My other account was on dataterm.digital and I really liked it there! But now it’s gone. Does anyone know what became of them? Apparently they had/have Mastadon, but I’ve never used it before and can’t seem to find it. I’d just really like to know if it’s coming back, or if it’s down for good and I need another account because I can’t keep walking around here like this.
This is their meta site: https://obeythesystem.com/ It doesn’t seem to list it. Neither does their network status page: https://biomonitor.cyberwa.re/status/network
I don’t know anything, but that seems to imply to me that it’s probably not coming back.
I haven’t heard of it but it’s always sad when an instance goes down. The same happened to vlemmy, it just went down without any explanation or warning. Maybe the admin didn’t have the time or resources to keep it running.
That’s where I started. Last I remember an admin brought up a server that had questionable content (can’t remember what kind) and said they didn’t want to defederate on principle but their servers were in Ireland and therefore subject to Irish law so their hands were tied.
Soon after, it was gone. I thought it was an outage but it just never came back, and Googling to find out more didn’t turn up anything useful. It was like I had met a ghost, so I’m always happy when people bring it up.
This is all second-hand knowledge (I’m not involved with nor personally know anyone involved) but I also had an account on dataterm.digital so I at least saw part of it. One thing I saw was the admin made a post on the local community saying he would be de-federating from one of the NSFW instances because dataterm.digital was hosted in Germany and he wasn’t sure of the legality of the content under German laws. Seems like a perfectly fair thing to do in my opinion. But, for whatever reason, a bunch of people from totally unrelated instances started flooding that post with horrible content that he had to moderate away. I don’t know why someone unrelated to dataterm.digital or that NSFW instance would have any stake in the issue, but there were a bunch of toxic comments.
I don’t think this was the worst thing that happened to the instance, but I do believe it was the last straw. The admin was so irritated by the whole thing that he just outright deleted the entire dataterm.digital VM without any warning and is basically done with Lemmy now. I personally don’t blame him in any way, but I would’ve at least liked a heads-up that he was doing this. I only know about it because I found his mastodon post shortly after he deleted the VM.
The people behind dataterm.digital also run the mastodon instance corteximplant.com and a couple other fediverse applications like pixelfed and misskey, but I don’t think they’re coming back to Lemmy.
Damn I remember the post about defederating from some instances due to German law, but I never really went to the comments because everything they said was pretty understandable. I don’t blame them either for the decision, but like you said I wish there would have been a little heads up. At least I now have some idea of what happened and where to find that community again. Thanks for the info!
Oh, right, this is the fediverse. (This is a Lemmy comment, FYI.)
@[email protected], whatever happened to dataterm.digital? Is it ever coming back?
God, I was starting to think it was a fever dream, that was my first instance, then suddenly it was gone. I still check every now and then if it’s back up. After a while, I assumed it wasn’t coming back and made my new home, but it still holds a special place for me.
Exactly! I kept trying to log in just to see if it was a temporary outage, but well it wasn’t to be. It’s at least good to know I wasn’t alone. Out of everything on Lemmy I really liked the vibe there, but if it’s down for good I guess it’s time to move on.
