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 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
It’s a chicken and egg problem, their high popularity makes them a ddos target
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.
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.
also can happen if the software you’re using doesnt manage the requests properly flashbacks to slowloris
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.
Careful, you might have to interact with spooky scary communists if you switch it up!
That’s what happened to me and I’m radicalized now.
o7 🚩
average lemmygrad user be like
Shrieks in Hexbear
Has lemmy.world defederated from lemmygrad?
I moved instances after the downtime when Sync came out, it’s been smooth sailing since
I just did the move. Tired of having the website offline and no info. Will delete the account soon
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
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?
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.
Reddthat is worse tho
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
Not really
IF you want to switch to an alternative instance use the tool Lasim to synchronize your accounts: synchronize subscriptions, settings and/or blocks. Tool is available for Windows, Linux and MacOs.
Do you know of a way for those of us only on mobile to move subs over?
just pick another instance and create another account. same email. not complicated. can’t migrate stuff you can’t get to, meh lemmy instances fediverse.observer
Thanks, I know how to create a new account on a new server, I just hoped for an easy way to move all my subs.
No, sorry :(
Just tried macOS. Didn’t work.
Probably because lemmy.world is down again.
Wait for lemmy.world to be back up and try again. If you can’t login on the web, the tool won’t be able to login either.
Oh that’s a pity. Switched from lemmy.world to feddit.nl flawlessly today. Using Windows though.
My MAC wouldn’t let me run the .exe because of security. Am I supposed to bypass security?
Did you download the zip for MacOS? Exe is only for Windows I believe?
And I don’t know if you are supposed to bypass security. I only have very limited Mac experience.
I may try again later. I have a windows pc I can try it on.
As [email protected] said, make sure www.lemmy.world is online. If you cant visit www.lemmy.world then the tool won’t work either.
Cuz you can just use another smaller instance, as you should.
Lemmy.zip and lemm.ee are cool
Everyone talking about how small and better lemm.ee is really starting to give “have you heard about this hidden gem The Witcher 3?” vibes.
lemm.ee isn’t even that small. It’s the 6th largest active lemmy instance iirc
Hidden. Gem.
That’s the point of the joke, the witcher 3 is a huge game but people always act like they’re in on some secret for knowing that it’s good.
Celeste.
Another good one, yeah. Or Hollow Knight.
How many copies do you have?
/r/tomorrow is leaking
That’s kind of what you want, though. A big enough operation that it probably won’t just disappear or start enforcing really arbitrary and unreasonable rules, but small enough that it’s not like lemmy.world.
For all the people that like to talk about having access to the whole fediverse and decide for themselves who to block…
mander.xyz and ttrpg.network are both rather niche instances in their own right, but don’t defederate, and I don’t believe are defederated by, anyone.
No one join them and say/do anything toxic though, don’t ruin a good thing for me lol
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Shhhh
Yeah, .zip represent
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
tchncs is pretty stable so far
I’m doing pretty good so far.
Gotta love decentralised shit
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.
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.
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.
Sent an application in!
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
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.
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
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
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.
I never gave reddit 1c and blocked all ads. I donate to lemmy.world.
I have zero anger when lemmy is down, I despised reddit, especially towards the end.
I really wish more people would donate to lemmy I think it’s totally fair to pay for someone to manage and help with running the site.
It’s hard to just say “volunteer”… Even if people volunteer and we can only afford to send 50% of their fee their way it’s still something…
If we want lemmy to thrive without ads we have to all pitch in. Just give 2$/ month… If we all did that we’d be able to hire people full time…
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 :
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
Sorry about the troll. Here’s a serious answer: LM actually stands for laborious meandering.
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 😄
indeed Snowden is a real hero !
thanks for your kind comments 😋 !
Please notice the edit of my previous comment answering your question.
LM?
wjats so good about lemmy.world compared to lemmy.ml
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.
This is more or less what I thought when I first joined.
Also Sync has it as default.
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
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.
That’s exactly the kind of people who run ml sadly.
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.
I heard lemmy.ml is run by genocide denying tankies so that put me off from it a little
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.
I mean communities being on world is an issue too.
Same reason I am here. I had two small communities for my interests there, but it was down so often that I decided to move here AND move my communities. This place seems a lot more stable. That’s really the downside of huge servers on lemmy IMO. If communities centralize on one server, whenever that one server is down, so are the communities for everyone.
I would totally run my own server but I’m not tech enough. I have spare hardware, and I have a 1GB fiber connection, but I am not a network security expert, so I am afraid my home IP address would be targeted and disrupt my house Internet in general. Even if I don’t allow others to create account or communities on my server, I still feel like it’s a risk for me because I am not skilled enough to deal with threats.
How do you move a community, start fresh?
Yes. Both were only a few months old and I was the only one posting in them anyway, so I just started going back through all the links and posting them here. I’m sure there will be tools for automating it down the road, without it spamming the local feeds of the server it’s moving to, but right now I know of no such application or feature.
