Everyone who joined the publicly open matrix channel dedicated to setting up a new instance. We couldn't do it on the open web to prevent domain parking.
I agree. Basically all Quackhouse plans were cancelled because Tom sent a single email and didn't show up again. We did have Quackhouse up on a limited extent and were starting to roll it out a few days ago, but they pulled Quackhouse offline again so I cannot work on it. I was hoping to have communities migrated before or around the new year, even if we didn't set up sign-ups by then
Unfortunately we had planned on getting the boat out before that happened. But it happened anyway. For now the instance seems to be back up, but this was a wake-up call.
I agree. A big objection was if we became big, reddit might be able to sue us.
The whole aim of this new instance is actually trying to see if we can attract some people to come onto it without having to really know what lemmy is. Feddit.uk sounded like a reddit knockoff, and having to explain it sounded confusing. If we could spread the word about the new instance without having to mention federation, as to not be intimidating, people may see the content provided from federation and be happy anyway, and not question the inner workings until they are settled.
Everyone who joined the publicly open matrix channel dedicated to setting up a new instance. We couldn't do it on the open web to prevent domain parking.