wow the peertube instance I had an account on and had...

wow the peertube instance I had an account on and had used a bunch over the last few years is seemingly gone without any notice. it was at betamax.video and was managed by @debugninja@banana.dog (also an instance thats gone now?) did they ragequit or something?

the importance of picking a server whos admin you trust is really an underrated aspect of the fediverse we need to work on... I mostly chose it for the cool domain name and the custom theme...

Like 10 Aug 2022 at 21:49 | Open on social.wake.st

11 comments

Alexander Bochmann

@liaizon Hrm, it seems to have been properly self-destructed - I was following some people on banana.dog and also can find my posts from a few conversations with debugninja, but all theirs don't exist on my instance anymore.

10 Aug 2022 at 22:27 | Open on mastodon.infra.de

Dante Scanline

@liaizon yeah this actually is why i didnt come back for a long time. i joined a masto when it got suddenly popular in 2017 or 2018 but my instance disappeared after a few months. wasn't really feeling it anyways so i didnt stick around hard.

10 Aug 2022 at 23:49 | Open on autonomous.zone

wakest ⁂

@dantescanline seems like a lesson we need to learn but its somehow not a fun one

10 Aug 2022 at 23:52 | Open on social.wake.st

notorious rgb

@liaizon I announced the closure of both well ahead of time but Betamax got killed earlier than anticipated because of a database issue during upgrade. Sorry if it caught you by surprise. I did a better job at closing banana.dog

11 Aug 2022 at 15:41 | Open on cathode.church

wakest ⁂

@rgb really bummed bu this. I had some stuff unbacked up that was there. I have had a few instances I had accounts on mastodon go down but this was the first I had a bunch of stuff on peertube. I saw no warnings from anywhere. Did you attempt to email people who were on your instance?

11 Aug 2022 at 15:44 | Open on social.wake.st

notorious rgb

@liaizon I did server announcements and tried reaching out to active users. DM me your username on there and I can prob recover the data

11 Aug 2022 at 15:45 | Open on cathode.church

wakest ⁂

@rgb @tape was my handle. you have a backup of the instance? somewhere?

11 Aug 2022 at 15:47 | Open on social.wake.st

notorious rgb

@liaizon I do, give me a bit of time to see if I can stage it somewhere

11 Aug 2022 at 15:51 | Open on cathode.church

wakest ⁂

@rgb do you have any plans for reusing the domain? I was happy with the instance and would take on the hosting of it if there was a way to get it back up

11 Aug 2022 at 15:53 | Open on social.wake.st

notorious rgb

@liaizon Let me think about it. I am not 100% sure the instance is recoverable as even before it was backed up the server it was running on was already failing and that combined with a bad peertube upgrade left the instance not really working.

11 Aug 2022 at 16:43 | Open on cathode.church

wakest ⁂

@rgb where did you announce the closure? did you send out an email to the people who had signed up for your instance?

11 Aug 2022 at 15:46 | Open on social.wake.st