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1y ago

I had to post from my alt account because lemmy.world servers are down

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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
  
  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.
  
  average lemmygrad user be like
  
  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
- 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
  
  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.

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
- 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
  
  Shhhh
  
  well now you’ve done it
- 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.
  
  Just make your own instance and then you don't have to deal with high traffic and down time
- 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.
  
  Sent an application in!
- 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 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
- 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.

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 if LM LW 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 :
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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 heard lemmy.ml is run by genocide denying tankies so that put me off from it a little
- wjats so good about lemmy.world compared to lemmy.ml
  nothing. lemmy.ml just makes more sense to me.i figure the devs of the protocol should be able to maintain and update their own server, and so far that has proven to be correct.

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.

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.

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 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).
  
  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.

Reddit servers down? Didn't notice

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.

Not having just an account on .world is a necessity since it's the favorite target of attacks (at least, I'm assuming that's why it's down so much).

options are optional

My home instance managed to get blocked by Lemmy World's Cloudflare firewall, probably because my Pleroma/Akkoma account and my Lemmy account are on the exact same IP.
- Fun fact: it was my Pleroma's fault after all! Some confusion with its "transmogrifier" library was causing it to spam requests every 0.8 seconds on average - not even joking, at one point my IP was the largest source of incoming requests in the world. Sorry for the accidental DDOS

Lemmy[.]ca user for this reason haha

that's exactly the reason I made an account here

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

Lemmy goes down more than a 2 dollar hooker on a Friday night. But the only reason I care is because I don't use the other site.

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