I really thought kbin.run was going to be up forever, as its admin was an Mbin maintainer and the instance had been around for over a year, but they vanished and took otomegames@kbin.run down with it, so here I am on ani.social, which has also been around for over a year, starting over for the second time due to instances dying on me (linked thread for the first time I started over: that time was due to kbin.social going down and taking otomegames@kbin.social down with it). Once it gets some subscribers I’ll ask what instance they’d like a backup community on to prevent this from happening yet again.
The general idea of otome games is a romance game aimed at women who want to romance men.
Wasn’t that the German or instance? I wonder why they went down. They seemed so big and established.
I believe it turned out to be a single-admin instance with a poor bus factor. The admin went AWOL, and the server eventually went down.
The downside of the fediverse =(
True, but at least there is a level of resilience in having multiple servers. It’s much easier for users to switch to another instance of the same platform than it is to switch to a different platform entirely. A move from feddit.de to feddit.org is smoother than, say, from Reddit to Lemmy.