1y ago

We had a good run, thank you everyone

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It feels like it is.
Most communities have no posts for days. I’m constantly logged out of my instance. Voting on something fails 80% of the time…
- The log in and voting issues aren’t because it’s dying, they were because of scaling issues and DDOS attacks because Lemmy is now a visible / popular target.
  This stuff is pretty normal for a new upstart service that is becoming popular. This feels like Reddit’s early days.
  
  Whatever the reason it’s happening, it’s happening. And has been happening for weeks.
  Even if a bad experience has a reason, a bad experience is a bad experience.
  
  Growing pains from being popular. It will get sorted out. Same thing happened to Twitter and Reddit in its early days.
  A lot of the early adopters here are millennial and gen X folks who adopted other stuff early in the past, and they have a nostalgia for the growing pains of a new platform.
  That said, you may want to check back in a few weeks when a defense for the DDOS shit has been figured out.
  
  If people decentralize and stop hopping on the biggest few instances, that'll help a lot.
  People can then just hang out on smaller instances and federate to other communities, and the load will be spread out a lot more.
  
  My hot take is that we need people to hammer certain instances. It’s uncovering performance issues that we didn’t see previously. Stress testing is good.
  Also IMHO, in the future, Lemmy World’s current size will be considered very small. 100k total users and 4000 active users per day will seem quaint.
- Most communities have no posts for days.
  This is on the community owners. Almost all subreddits start as spaces where one person (the creator) posts daily until the community grows.
  It's also a thing on reddit. The vast majority of subreddits created get abandoned. Only a tiny percentage go the distance to become active communities.
  Simply subscribe to the active communities, or take part in making communities that you want to be active into active ones. You haven't made a single post and you're complaining about a lack of posts. The problem here is that you just want a slop feed rather than to be an active member of a community.
- So far on lemmy all I've really encountered is a bunch of threads going on and on about how great lemmy is, a bunch of assholes who contradict those threads about how great lemmy is, and a shitton of bugs like the one you mentioned and more. I'll give it a shot I guess but my experience has been pretty underwhelming so far.
  
  IMHO, most of the performance bugs have been ironed out during the part week. Problem is that Lemmy’s new popularity is inviting DDOS attacks.

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