Heya! It’s gabe here. The database is 100% restorable, so we will be back sometime. Hopefully sooner rather than later. It’s just been a hell of a time trying to wrangle the instance back online for so many reasons. Each reason just getting more annoying than that last. Doesn’t help I’ve likely been getting sick off and on all week and had a headache and a fever today. I don’t know if the VM was actually hacked or if it was the VPS provider being fucky (probably the VPS hosting provider, they were going up and down like a bouncy ball all week) but I will make a more explaining post as to what exactly happened with the limited info I have. I basically logged in and UFW and fail2ban were simply uninstalled and logs were basically showing nonstop VPS up and down time and I completely panicked. I’m treating it as it if was a hack just to be safe and locking as much as I can down further, but it’s been extra frustrating due to catching what is likely some sort of illness this past week long. At this point the only thing that’s needed from people is just do the usual and change passwords if you used the same password on there as other sites and to be extra safe changing your password when we go back online. I am setting up with a different hosting provider this time and trying my best to fix things back up. I have others I am troubleshooting it with at least.

I honestly feel really shitty about all of it. Not as awful and personally hurt as before, but it still sucks so much and I’m hoping to bring it back up this weekend at the very latest. I’m really sorry :(

If you wanna follow updates I am posting them here: https://sleepy.ink

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Agreed, lemmy.world mods might just take over this community though 🙄

Cautiously optimistic. His community and comments tends to be a mixed bag.

It likely will take some time to federate in instances unfortunately. Things are kinda overloaded all across the lemmyverse especially with the “pending subscription” stuff within inter-instance communities, but over time it will stabilize itself. Similar stuff happened when mastodon got migrants for a time as well.

Keep trying. In the communities tab, you can type !washington_dc@dmv.social into the communities tab and attempt to get it to federate.

Edit: it seems to have federated!

Oh wait nevermind, apparently theres an instance now! https://dmv.social/ looks promising

If had the technical knowledge I’d make an instance for the east coast/mid atlantic region kinda like midwest.social

maybe… eastcoast.social? or something?

Freedom of speech with consequences?

I think abortion rights will be a key breaking point for many voters across Virginia and rally many against anti-choice officials. A bear has been poked that isn’t going to be calmed down.

I hope it gets to a point where hyperlocal/city specific communities are feasible but we will see.