Rightfully so.
Lemmy servers are hosted by just some people that often don’t even accept donations, shoulder the entire legal liability and are sys admin all together by themselves.
And then there is the clownshow reddit being a gigantic company and not even able to not be a gigantic shitshow.
I’m actually seeing more and more .world users getting pissed as the downtimes become more frequent now.
I mean that is the problem of too many people being on that one instance.
I really blame Sync for defaulting to lemmy.world, imo lemmy.world should close to new registrations, at least while they’re figuring things out.
I mean that is the problem of too many people being on that one instance.
From what I understand, capacity isn’t the issue, it’s that they’re being repeatedly DDoS’ed
Technically, a DDoS can happen naturally if enough people are trying to use it at the same time. I’ve seen it happen to other, larger websites before. And lemmy.world definitely doesn’t have the infrastructure of some of those larger websites.
also can happen if the software you’re using doesnt manage the requests properly flashbacks to slowloris
Apparently that’s not the case for lemmy.world, it seems someone is pissed for being banned so they’re DDSOSing .world specifically.
Tho I agree all people trying to go to the same instance is not a smart thing.
Yep, I just saw the update they posted.
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Reddthat is worse tho
Not really
I haven’t really had any issue, and was happy enough to donate to them. I joined a few instances for various reasons, but reddthat is my main
Careful, you might have to interact with spooky scary communists if you switch it up!
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Shrieks in Hexbear
That’s what happened to me and I’m radicalized now.
o7 🚩
Has lemmy.world defederated from lemmygrad?
Yeah… it makes for a fucking awkward experience.
Just swapped to a different instance personally
Yup, no biggie. Will use .world when it’s working and the other when it’s not.
I just did the move. Tired of having the website offline and no info. Will delete the account soon
Thinking of the same thing, but if I delete my account on an instance, do the comments and posts from that account also get deleted?
have half dozen various types. no need to delete. fedi-wide accounts are still a wish. name them the same and carry on. can set a redirect on mastodon. not sure lemmy
I moved instances after the downtime when Sync came out, it’s been smooth sailing since
Tbh I’ve just stopped using my world account at this point. Lemmy.ca has been much more reliable so far lol.
Until a moose power - fucks the servers
As long as it’s filmed for the content. Need to feed the meme machine.
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this is the opposite on reddit (obvious reasons). ppl go ham when someone mentions lemmy.world is down lol
Which is especially funny since you can just log into a different instance and keep browsing, unlike with Reddit.
wjats so good about lemmy.world compared to lemmy.ml
I heard lemmy.ml is run by genocide denying tankies so that put me off from it a little
More letters
Lemmy.world is run by the same people as mastodon.world. I guess a lot of users from mastodon.world went to Lemmy.world and the rest was word of mouth.
I think the name does a lot of heavy lifting in regards to pulling in new users. It sounds more official or general because of the world part.
Yeah, people just want a “generic” place because they generally don’t want to be pidgeon holed. I have nice and inoffensive lemmy.world and lemmy.today accounts because of this. I’m basically a vanilla NPC in my life and “sh.itjust.works” is simply too spicy!
I’m on the spicy instance? I couldn’t tell.
Also Sync has it as default.
This is more or less what I thought when I first joined.
lemmy.world isn’t run by communists
that sounds like a downside, unless you mean the kinda USSR/Chinese “communists” that are just state capitalists/feudalists
That’s exactly the kind of people who run ml sadly.
Well lemmygrad.ml loves to make memes about how great the Chinese government is and how everyone who criticises the Chinese government is just mean, and they’re kind of the poster child for lemmy.ml, so…
well those are like pro fascist people, not exactly communists, because current china is very much fascistic in it’s behavior.
I think the draw is that it’s trying really hard to basically be Reddit on the fediverse. For the people who use the fediverse as a Reddit alternative that is probably seen as good.
For the rest of us: that shit’s lame as hell
To each their own though
I agree, they’re speedrunning every bad decision that allows Reddit to be such a festering reactionary shithole.
The Reddit refugee wave is mad about Apollo not the fact Reddit sucks lol.
Reddit servers down? Didn’t notice
I switched to lemm.ee, it’s much more stable since it’s not constantly being attacked by script kiddies. I have a theory a user got banned, and is making it their personal mission to ruin .world’s performance. Please donate to your home instance owner(s) if they have that set up. Even if it’s just a little, it can make everyone’s experience better.
That wouldn’t surprise me, I’ve seen ddos’s against smaller servers over dumber things.
But given that they preemptively ban instances for not supporting NATO and the IMF and don’t preemptively ban nazi, transphobe, and pedophile instances, fuck em.
The fediverse is weaker if .world is allowed to color people’s perception of Lemmy.
Kbin.social alt accounts rise up!
My main kbin account is kbin.cafe but im using this one for Artemis until kbin API is properly implemented
Up time 76% on lemmy.world // last 24h.
No message from any of their admis.
Outside attack : usual shitheads. And ifLMLW fails, they will attack the next big one.Edit #1 : LM is Lemmy.world
Edit #2 : oups LW … not LM
Edit #3 : Lemmy.World status
Edit #4 : from 4am utc //24h :
users who wanted LM explanation :
LM?
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Is that info publicly available?
LW is currently down (for me, at least) and I’m curious if it tends to happen at the same time every day.
From the sidebar of the main page of lemmy.world, so :
That 76% was 2 hours ago, now at 74%
What is LM?
Little Mix
Googling returns nothing. Thanks troll
indeed Snowden is a real hero !
thanks for your kind comments 😋 !
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Yes lol well, this is my hobby.
I find radio and TV mostly boring.
Here we have many nice people, liberty of speech and very low social pressure.
Lemmy is Fun 😄
Understandable since one is a government funded
psyop running on servers in the basement of the FBI building. The other is Reddit.Ayyyyyyy.
elaborate?
I work in the same department on the HexBear server, someone clogged the toilet again (whoever it is uses way too much toilet paper, they just keep wrapping), Anyways to save space we keep our Lemmy instances in the bathroom and the shitwater got to it.
I use my dad’s basement to store my server computer and I have a lemmy instance there. And my dad works for the FBI as a janitor (he’s old so he bought the house for cheap).
Can confirm, I’m the bartender at the FBI (Fred’s Burgers & Iced Tea, we’re still working on the acronym though).
If only federation existed… and other instances existed…
Ah yes, let’s forever create new accounts on new instances as they all get bogged down. Solid solution.
Just make your own instance and then you don’t have to deal with high traffic and down time
Lol that’s your solution for the common user?
It’s my solution for myself, and I imagine a lot of folk on lemmy today are technically inclined enough that it’s not an outlandish recommendation.
It’s not “bogged down,” it’s being DDOS attacked.
What’s the outcome of a DDOS attack again? XD
Okay, granted, but only using the term “bogged down” adds to the misconception that the problem is too many accounts on the server. It should be clarified that it comes from a deliberate outside source.
I made an account on sdf.org because I got tired of lemmy.world’s servers going down. But I found out that SDF’s servers often go down, too…
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I’m doing pretty good so far.
I’ve been trying to find a smaller instance and I tried a couple, they see waaaaaay different things. I can’t even see lemmy.world on one of them. I might have to keep all of the instances and just jump around.
I tried lemm.ee and it’s cool but I see so many hexbear posts on the All tab from like any of their communities spewing hate and it’s frustrating to scroll past
I believe there is a way to block instances, I don’t know if it blocks comments but i believe it would block the posts
Yeah, that’s a nah from me for that very reason. Those people should be shouting that stuff in their bathroom, not in a place where others have to hear it.
Join mine! I run several tools in order to federate with the most popular content automatically. I’m keeping user count limited, but sign ups are open at the moment.
Sent an application in!
I seriously like your rules, lol.
I like to keep shit simple. :D
I like your rules too. But I have to admit I didn’t know what “No tankie shit” meant, so I had to look it up. 😀 That was a new term for me.
Some have community seeding bots that pull top communities and posts periodically from other instances.
That makes sense, thanks for explaining. I couldn’t find a lot of instances in their search though either. Can the instance person make it so they have to approve each instance or something? This is a very simple one and I can’t believe they would be defederated.
My instance has it. It’s local communities are focused on a specific niche (books & writing) so it might not be your cup of tea though. But basically when setting it up you specify which instances it pulls from, how often it pulls and how many communities it can pull at a time. You can filter specific communities and instances, and it’ll automatically ignore instances you’ve already defederated from. By default it pulls the top /all posts from the instances you specify. Mine pulls from a couple big instances and smaller niche instances as well every day around noon to get a solid diverse amount of content. You can also auto disable NSFW communities from populating as well. It’s basically the equivalent of telling the bot to go to the front page of each instance, seeing the top posts of the day and pulling from each community that’s there to check if it’s federated into your instance or not and if it isn’t itll pull it in for you.
With the way lemmy functions if a problematic community starts hitting /all an instance admin can just remove the community and it won’t federate into the instance anymore. Ideally there would be more granular federation options in the future, but with the things that the seeding bot does now it works pretty well.
That is great information, thank you for explaining it to me. That explains why I’ve had issues trying to find my favorite communities on the smaller instances. I think it’s misleading when they say that you can pick any instance then, it really matters for what kind of admin you get and what you can see overall. I can’t see world on this super small instance but I can see beehaw. On world, I can’t see beehaw but I can see everything else the small instance can’t. I’m starting to see why people are confused when they join if they join a small instance.
Some of it is also federating content in, you don’t need an admin to do so for you. If you have a link to a different instances community, just pasting it into the search bar of your local instance will federate the community into your instance for you. Go to lemmyverse.net and find a community and its link then past it into the search of your local lemmy instance
I did that, that’s what I mean where it wouldn’t work. I’ve done it for tons of communities from world where they didn’t have it but it didn’t work on this small instance.
Really? You sometimes have to click the search button a few times.
Thats what I do. It’s a strength of the fediverse, and most of the apps handle account swapping pretty seamlessly.
What apps do you recommend for swapping instances?
I have tried Jerboa and Connect. Both allow me to swap accounts from the main menu, but I am brought back to me default start view and not the community/thread I was looking at.
I really like Liftoff for this. You can choose instances on the fly while posting, searching, or reading comments without losing your spot.
It’s really nice.
I love it too. In case you didn’t know, you can just lurk on other instances without having to have an account by adding just the instance.
I noticed that, because I went to add my beehaw account that I had created when I joined Lemmy, but I guess beehaw deleted it for being inactive or something. Beehaw still shows up on my instance list, and I kind of wish I could remove it.
On your instances list long press Beehaw and the option to remove it will show up.
Omg, thank you so much
The funny thing is that Reddit with its big teams and infrastructure was also sluggish and going down a lot this week and we keep forgetting that. No excuses for Reddit.
