Seems like there's a lot of instances struggling. Props to all the admins out there fighting to keep their stuff running (and don't forget to decentralize!)
Finally signed up for another instance cause world went down
This is the way. Users should try to spread themselves out when possible so that any one instance doesn't get overloaded.
I keep 2 alt accounts (on different instances) in case my main account goes down.
I'm debating spinning up my own instance. I plan to cycle through accounts every so often like I did on Reddit (used to be 1-2 years), so I'll probably just change instances when I do.
For now, this instance seems to work well, so I'm sticking to it.
imho this reflects a huge failure of the fediverse. Our accounts shouldn't be tied to an instance that's hosting content, they should be on a an auth-only server that only is responsible for managing our identity, separate from the content-servers. Then it would be up to content-servers to decide how much content they want to federate about an identity to show on that user's profile-page on this particular content-server. Like either federating it right in (hey here's @Pxtl's profile/feed scraped from every fediverse server they use directly) or just autogenerating links to their content on other servers (we don't want to host content from HowToBlowUpAPipelineLemmy.org on Lemmy.world but here's a link to @Pxtl's posts there).
Wouldn't it be cool to have the same identity on Mastodon as on Lemmy?
Then you could continue to participate in the fediverse without creating a new user-account on every server. Of course, the auth servers would still be vulnerable to outage but since they're lower load and just providing auth they'd be much less vulnerable.
Well done!
Thank you! :)
This is the way
Update: http://lemmy-status.org/
Seems quite useful right now
It's been down for two and a half hours at this point. I hope they're able to resuscitate. Always good to have a side instance.
It's back up now
That instance goes down a lot it seems. Wonder why.
It's the most one by far (27k monthly users vs 4k for the second one): https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
They should disable signups for a while to allow the user load to start distributing more evenly across other instances.
Think it's down. Is that why hot is full of different communities?
It was working fine for me, and then today it was extremely slow. Maybe because of continuing influx of users?
Anyway, does anyone know of a way to transfer communities to different instances?
Raw deal
It's really been slow lately. Not blaming them, no one expected Reddit to implode and introduce a higher influx of users! But if possible, we should all sign up and browse from less overwhelmed servers; you still get all the same content!
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Bored script kiddies have time in the weekends when they are allowed screen time by their mommies. Then they create scripts to bombard our server and grind the thing to a halt. Gives us the opportunity to improve things like rate limiting etc every time, but also means some downtime..
You guys are doing fine ruud, I don’t have as much time to waste on the weekends so I didn’t even notice the down time
@Blaze Glad I moved to Kbin then, I heard that it had issues but didn't release the whole site was just gonna go down like that.
Alternatively, you can look up for smaller instances (use the 1m column for active users in 1 month): https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
I personally prefer to use Lemmy as the federation with Kbin can still be a bit clunky at the moment
@Blaze Yeah I know what you mean about it sometimes feeling Clunky, it seems to be mainly when a new instance needs to be added but It has been reported and the developer should hopefully fix it in the near future. Lemmy was good especially as it was very simple.
Kbin currently has better filtering/blocking options if that's something you care about.
