feddit.de has been giving “Server error” for some time but I read that the server is still working when using a Lemmy app. Tried the Photon front-end today and choosing feddit.de as instance.
- Example post from All : https://phtn.app/post/feddit.de/12459995
- Example (German) post from Local, 3 hours ago : https://phtn.app/post/feddit.de/12475331
My question (I’m just curious, I have no account on feddit.de) is : Can an alternative front-end on their server co-exist with the other server software ? I guess it would be a matter of installing Photon and then point nginx configuration to that. Or am I missing something crucial ?
Lemmy front-end can be anywhere, it is front-end. It is an app install on your computer. Think, front-end is an app like mobile app on your phone. But front-end is on internet because it is a web-app, you got to download it first. THen your browser cache it.
Some instance host front-end for convenient, but you can access front-end from the project homepage.
For example: to use alexandrite front-end access lemmy.world, you can