Last week I nuked my personal lemmy instance while trying to upgrade to 0.18.0. Due to some technical issues, I decided to keep the server offline while waiting for the new releases. During this process I deleted the database and all config files while trying to debug. Finally, after 1 week, I decided to try the latest release candidate and the instance is back up. I thought I would have to manually re-subscribe to all my communities as I saw an empty list of subscribed communities, but over the next few hours something amazing happened. One by one all my previously subscribed communities appeared on the Communities->All tab 😱 🤯. All I had to do was click subscribe. I guess this would not have happened if I had used a different username or domain name for my instance.
TLDR: Fediverse/lemmy restored my subscribed communities after the instance was offline for 1 week and the database was reset.
Remote instances tried to send updates because you still figured as subscribed and your local instance naturally accepted them.
I am glad that the servers did not forget me and kept trying to reach my instance. 😀 Good job Fediverse
Gone but not forgotten 😇
The Fediverse remembers… ⚔️
and I cant even get communities into a subscribed state from ml behehaw or social. others work fine
Some of my subscriptions lemmy.world, lemmy.ml and beehaw are still pending. These big instances( on 0.17.4) are still not working optimally hopefully this will be solved after 0.18.1 upgrade.
