Just what the title says. There is one of interest I’d like to take, given the level of inactivity.
A while back hexbear got into a bidding war over their own domain because somebody forgot to pay the bill.
Is it possible to adopt an abandoned Lemmy instance?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Lesovikk@lemmy.world to support@lemmy.world
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finitebanjo@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Depends on the instance.
I did it for !eldenring@lemmy.world by just messaging the admins because the og mod just parked it and fucked off.
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 3 weeks ago
A instance runs on a server which has to be played and has a domain associated with it which also needs to be played.
So the owner would need to transfer all files to you and the domain so you can host it.
If that instance doesn’t host popular communities or hosts a lot of users it’s just much easier to create a new instance.
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
To be fair, you don’t need the domain, you could just have them change the host record. But it would sure be safer for the instance if you controlled the entire domain.
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 2 weeks ago
Ask the admin of the instance to transfer the domain to you and send you a full dump of the Lemmy database and you are good to go.
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 3 weeks ago
sure. just convince the instance admin to hand over the hosting account and domain ownership.