"if they took porn off the internet, there'd only be one website left, and it'd be called "Bring Back the Porn!" "

So this thread has shown a weird number of fucking Puritans on Lemmy but no answers to the question.

From speaking with other instance admins it seems the head admin is not currently able to be contacted...

There is another lemmynsfw admin active in our chat but they do not have access to any database backups.

Lemmynsfw admin here, partially my fault but mostly not.

The other admin owned the server and the domain, suddenly he stopped responding, I started getting concerned and shit you not before all this happened I was planning on making a backup the weekend AFTER the site went down. But of course that never happened. That's the part that's my fault, I should have been backing things up ages ago.

The server is down, and I had access to the server, but not the platform it's hosted on. One day the server just... turned off. Other admin isn't responding and I have no way to get the data from the site.

I have access to, but don't own the domain. So the plan now is to look into other hosting options, like the fedihost beta program, and spin up a Lemmy and/or piefed instance and redirect from the old domain to a new one I own. But yeah unfortunately it looks like the site as it was is dead :(

An admin in their matrix room explains they lack access to revive it. It'd been intermittently going down for a while.

Cloudflare responds with error 521 to connection attempts.
Which means the server is refusing Cloudflare connection attempts.
And it's been like that for a while.
So it's shut off, broken, or not connected.

tl/dr: Server no worky

If you want to know more, the only one who can tell you is the instance admin.

It’ll be okay.

Mods are out for a quick goon, id assume

Same here - haven't been able to have a proper goon in over 4 days, and that's the only place where I source my material so...