Seems like they are under attack again, will those people never stop? I feel sorry for the admin team.
it’s been a rough two days, but I see a clearing in the sky 😋 !
Let’s hope it lasts!
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It’s getting really annoying. Is there an mobile friendly way to migrate my account from lemmy.world to lemmy.zip?
Unfortunately, I don’t think there is anything on mobile yet. The best tool for this is LASIM on desktop.
Thanks! Gonna have to find some way to get to a PC or Mac.
If you’re on Android you can use Termux to run lemmy_migrate, it’s a Python script
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Hm, I’m afraid at this moment the most common solution is https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim, which requires a computer. Would you be able to get access to one at some point later?
Ooh, I didn’t know about this, thank you. I’ve primarily been using kbin, but this sounds like a good tool to bookmark for the future.
I have access to my work MacBook. Would that work?
I’m not an expert in Rust, but I guess it should!
LASIM author here - it should! Though Mac OS X is the one platform I can’t test on myself - I can build it through Github, and everything I did should be cross-platform, but I can’t actually launch it myself to make sure everything is working fine.
Only other thing might be if their work Macbook imposes any restrictions on running arbitrary binaries from the internet - which it understandably might.
You can always have multiple accounts
I guess the issue is to importing the huge list of blocked instances to the new account
Yes, exactly. Blocked and subscribed as well
Why do you block instances? Sorry, new here
Because I have no interest in them, or they are NSFW and don’t tag properly, or they are duplicates with ones I already follow (technology communities are a good example)
I personally follow all the technology communities and just show new subscribed content on my main page. Some content is the same but there’s a lot of different posts too.
It kind of sucks that there’s several sub’s with a lot of people but then again, that’s the point, right?
You do you, I just prefer to block them, as long as we are both happy, that’s what matters!
I’ll concede, that’s a legitimately useful timesaver.
And it’s back up again! Kudos to the team!
Down again it seems. People seriously need to switch away from lemmy.world. Every single time it goes down so much content goes down with it. It’s annoying.
I did this early on after realizing my mistake, promptly moved to vlemmy.net which after a couple weeks went totally mia.
Moved again… It’s a toss-up though. I want an instance big enough to stay updated, and have an active community, but not turn into .world or vlemmy.
You should be safe on infosec.pub, jerry is a great admin
Here’s to hoping!! I also worked with infosec group at my previous employer a lot and really grew to appreciate that field so I felt like a good fit !
That’s great!
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Because they’re on lemdro.id as lemmy provider, not lemmy.world. That’s the @ part in the user name.
It’s working now. Indeed, I hope they will.
I recommend people move away from Lemmy.world. Having ~28% of Lemmy users on a single instance is not good for the health of Lemmy overall.
For those that want to move to a different instance, here is a link to Lemmy instances sorted by user count: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
Is there an easy way to move all my subscriptions over?
There is a python script: https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate
or a program with a GUI: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim/releases
Personally, I just went through the list of communities and re-added them. However, I haven’t used them myself but some others in this thread have recommended these tools for migration:
I need another instance so I can lurk when this happens.
If it’s just for lurking, look for a small one to help spread the load.
Try the one I’m on if your into sci-fi or fantasy
+1 to this. Imho it’s not good for lemmy as a whole if people are concentrated on a few large instances. Any time one of those major instances experience issues, the effect is going be major.
Hey, good to see you here! I always like your posts on !fantasy@sffa.community
I’m mostly in the Cosmere communities, I need to read more books before I can contribute elsewhere!
Life before Death, Radiant.
Strength before weakness. Journey before destination.
Have a look at here to know how to find one: https://sopuli.xyz/comment/1603292
I decided to make on on Lemm.ee. Seems pretty cool!
That’s why I created this lemm.ee account. It seemed silly just waiting for lemmy.world to come back up all the time. That’s the beauty of the Fediverse. 😁
Performance is also overall better via other instances. We were hesitant about migrating /r/android given the LW downtimes but ended up doing so when Cole offered us a place on lemdro.id. Awesome uptime and great performance thus far with his scaling solution - keeps costs low as well.
The more decentralized, the better!
That was definitely a controversial move. 😂
I think it’s “easier” when you first come to Lemmy (or similar) to join the biggest server with all the communities. Being able to interact with communities everywhere, despite where your home instance is, takes some time to conceptualize. I actually think Lemmy has been easier to understand with that than, say, Mastodon.
Ideally this will be addressed by improved community discovery functionality in the apps and Lemmy-UI so folks don’t need to really think about it.
I agree Lemmy is easier than Mastodon.
Status page: https://lemmy-status.org/endpoints/_lemmy-world
Are they suffering DDOS attacks? They might need something like Cloudflare to combat this. Maybe some kind of reverse-proxy if the attack isn’t super massive.
That doesn’t really work for logged in users though, right?
Already running Cloudflare.
Ah shite.
“Always Online” ™️
The current issue is actually an ongoing DB issue. It’s not solely affecting LW.
Yes. My instance will sometime have unusual high load and it will overload the cpu unless restarted. 0.18.3 doesn’t seems to fix it, and it only affect some instance but not all. It’s hard to pinpoint what cause the loop to happen.
Exactly for that reason I have created a second account on lemm.ee.
There is even a nice Python script to propagate your subscriptions and block lists to one or more other accounts.
Find it here: https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate
I did the same thing. Based off comments like this though it kinda seems like lemm.ee may turn into a lemmy.world 2.0.
Here’s another GUI tool that I used to migrate to my current instance. Kudos to both devs!
Great alternative! Thanks!
As always, previous comment/post in a similar situation: https://sopuli.xyz/comment/1603292
Seems down again https://lemmy-status.org/
Oohhh, that is why sometimes browsing to world gives me cuckflare error.
Downvoted for use of “cuck” - I don’t know anything about you, but your word choice causes me to have angry feelings toward you.
I know they suck at keeping your data safe, I know they are a monopoly, but… thats an odd choice of words
Why are people attacking a msg board?
Because there’s a very small chance one of the message board users might click on a link and get scammed for money?
Not sure if people dumb enough to click mystery links and hand Nigerian princes bit coin use these boards, but gl i guess lol
Never underestimate stupidity. You’ll always be surprised.
If you spam 1000 links, and 2% of people are really dumb, that’s 20 suckers to steal from.
That pond always has fish in it!
sh.itjust.works to the rescue
Or find a smaller instance. If everyone joins a bigger instance it’s just moving the problem
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I think lemmy.world is too large for the health of the fediverse. A nasty incident which takes it down permanently could “kill” Lemmy as a whole. Perhaps a sign up stop is in order.
I moved to a different instance about a month ago, after lemmy.world got hacked. I haven’t had any issues on Midwest.social. I suggest other people do the same if they want Lemmy to be feasible in the long term. Get the fuck off Lemmy.world.
Here is a list of instances sorted by user count if anyone wants to move: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
So are you recommending to switch instances and not interact with lemmy.world and its users? I don’t get this, what’s the point of something getting popular if you can’t interact with it? So those that got in early get to be here while others have to start from scratch?
And what happens if you have a question and your instance has 10 users, while world has 3000?
Lemmy is a federated network (part of the Fediverse), meaning that, for the most part, all instances are linked together and share most of the same information and comments. If people move from one instance to another then their experience will be almost identical.
If you already have an account on Lemmy.world then you can transfer your account information to an account on a different instance by using one of the many tools created by Lemmy’s users. The reason you would move away from Lemmy.world is that it helps decentralize Lemmy’s data, so that if one instance goes down it doesn’t have a large impact on others’ Lemmy experience.
If you are using an instance with only 10 users, then here are some issues you might run into: there are less users to update the instance’s ‘communities’ page, so you might have to add some communities to the instance manually; there aren’t as many people maintaining the instance, so it might not be as well-maintained as some larger instances; the server costs might not be worth hosting for just 10 users (donate to your host, if you have the means to do so). However, there are a lot of smaller instances that are just as well-maintained as Lemmy.world (like Midwest.social).
I hope this helped you understand Lemmy a little better.
That’s not how federation works. You can still interact with lemmy.world and its users from another instance, but spreading out not only helps with lemmy.world’s load, but also the fediverse.
Hello from sopuli.xyz! We are officially interacting:)
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I haven’t used them, but others are recommending these tools for transferring your user info:
If the free GitHub scripts from the other comment don’t work for you, Sync has it as a paid option.
Thanks for the link
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No idea. But if I were to guess, it looks like ‘www.hexbear’ was added in July and then reposted in August in an attempt remove the ‘www’. I assume their intention was to follow the same formatting as everyone else, but they weren’t able to delete the original ‘www.hexbear’. It appears that there is a way to add instances, but no easy way to delete them.
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I agree, but they plan on making a message on the sign up screen encouraging users but not stopping sign up so… 🤷♂️
without user friction (in this case, a thing that prevents a user from agreeing without reading a textbox with a link to join another lemmy instance, even if its by the same people) its pointless
or this will keep happening
Instead of blocking sign-ups we can have Lemmy’s sign up automatically recommend other servers.
Another developer and I already have a PR in development for it.
Here’s the idea in more detail: https://lemm.ee/post/2800726
Wonderful compromise, love it. Thank you.
Attitudes like this are much worse for the health of the Fediverse, IMO.
A popular instance with users and content? Kill it immediately, we can’t risk people actually using the Fediverse.
The fact is, lemmy.world’s size is already actively harming the fediverse and it’s quite annoying. No one said to “kill it” just stop it from growing even more
