lemmy.cafe seems down. it returns a 502, indicating that something behind nginx went wrong. i checked !general@lemmy.cafe, but the last post is ~2 years ago. does anybody know whether .cafe has some planned downtime, or something else announced?
just prodding around, i also typed https://status.lemmy.cafe/ into my browser. that leads to their grafana login :-)
thanks to everyone contributing. but especially @Illecors@lemmy.cafe for not only maintaining the instance but also swiftly bringing it back up!
I hit archive.org’s Wayback Machine—learned in the process, that apparently use of Anubis breaks the Wayback Machine, which is…a little concerning. I don’t know how many websites out there aren’t being archived now…
Anyway, from a pre-Anubis page Archive.org page, the admins appear to be:
Looking at lemmy.world’s view of their user pages (which is still accessible):
I don’t know whether user pages on remote instances than a user’s home instance are complete; I’m a little suspicious that they might only display comments and posts to communities to which at least one user who subscribes to the community with the post/comment on the home instance. But with lemmy.world the largest instance, my guess is that that’s the most-complete record of comments one might get.
On lemvotes.org, looking for vote activity (which is probably at least-as-current):
They might have non-admin accounts and use those for everything, but I’d guess that Illecors is likely going to be the only “active” admin, from that.
Based on the view of the lemmy.world user page for him, he does follow !asklemmy@lemmy.world and a number of other major communities, so he might see something you post there if the instance is down and he’s using an account on another home instance to get on. He does not list any non-lemmy.cafe contact information in his user bio.
The archive.org page I listed above does have:
I’m not familiar with SimpleX, and I don’t know if that’s still active or if it’s possible to get to it through Archive.org’s archived page, but it does show a page with a QR code, which you might be able to scan with a mobile client to reach it.