And if the thought of setting up another account annoys you, I've made a tool that will migrate your account settings, subscriptions, and blocks: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

Now that does require the source instance to be up long enough to download your profile, but after that you can upload to any instance you want and be running like nothing changed in like 2 minutes.

Tbh, I kinda like that we have these growing pains. Helps folks leave out older expectations of monolithic profit-oriented social platforms. And actually put some money down to help host the specific niche community they really want to exist.

I'll probably eat these words later but, as of this moment, I stand by it.

I wish people would stop using this advice without some caveats. The instance you choose is also about the admins your choosing to have your account under.

I'll stay on Lemmy.world because I trust the admin there. Any time you jump to a new instance, you better hope it's run by levelheaded, fair-minded people.

I am subscribed to nine others.

Yeah. There is little reason to sign up on the biggest server since you can see and interact with content from any of the servers.

along with DDoS attacks

Is lemmy.world getting DDoSed? Who would profit from that? (honest question. I hadn't read this before.)

Yes. These are growing pains. That’s a good thing.

Only if it's Furry porn.

They're defederated with many of the instances though

They even have video uploading enabled.

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Can you recommend any that are good? Lemmynsfw seems to only be celebrities and it sucks.

I totally agree with your outlook and made a pretty similar post to yours a couple minutes ago. My only addition would be some concern as to why it seems like attacks are causing the downtime. The attacks do encourage improvement, but why do it in the first place. I'm hoping bored enthusiasts. At least it wouldn't be BS corporate attacks trying to eliminate competition.

Because it's annoying.

I have accounts on a few instances, and lemm.ee is the quickest and most stable of them all. I don't know what they're doing, but it's great.

I got accounts on lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works and kbin.social. I had one on .world in the beginning, but the performance wasn't great. Probably too many users.

That’s why I use lemm.ee

1993: God, how we would love it if someone could tell us anything was “just that simple”, and then of course when you see a pie chart you go “Oh, a pie chart…”. I mean, it has more religious meaning now than a crucifix to see a pie chart. I mean, because…. why is that so popular? Because it reduces complexity. The complexity is very real but his little soundbites - 1993

@garpunkal@lemm.ee - do you know of the history of site_aggregates PostgreSQL table?

i tried this, is it normal to never receive the verification email? it says verification sent, i tried 4 diff smaller instances, and its been like 10 hours. i checked the spam too

I'm not Australian.

memmy is great!

Until that other one goes down, then memmy really struggles to let you in. At least that’s what happened to me.

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Oh, you guys are back!

Having glanced at the code and taken my own instance down a few times cleaning up a surprisingly small number of automated posts, it's definitely the combination of some design choices in the code and the scale of lemmy.world. Keeping an instance up that has so many posts and communities has been difficult on my instance, and I'm basically the only user. I can imagine with the scale and lemmy.world load and publicity, it's nearly impossible until some improvements to the data layer are made.

For one example, purging a community with 1k posts and 30k comments (I was messing with a bot) took my instance down for 2 hours with the postgres database pegged at a full core minimum. And then it took down my instance. And then I restarted the database but presumably this was done in a transaction so no progress had been made.

I'm personally impressed with the amount of uptime lemmy.world has managed. And I'm also impressed with lemmy overall, but it's pretty clear there has been some rapid growth that, as it usually does, exposed some of the limits of the design and requires some improvements for the current scale.

As a user with pretty limited knowledge on servers, I appreciate how easy it is to flip from instance to instance. One goes down and I use a backup account somewhere else. I'm really not keeping close attention to which one I'm on at the moment. It gives me access and lets me comment/post. I'm not trying to build any profile so it doesn't matter. I could see a major poster or mod want multiple accounts with the same name for consistency sake though.

Problem is that many times it will say "partial outage" but the website doesnt even work so technically it's a full outage. I assume it's to keep the uptime % as high as they can. So that 98.XX% uptime isnt very accurate at all.

Problem is, so many communities are on .world now, so it hurts even from another instance

i prefer this one for reddit theme: kbin familiarity & og post here. also welcome to kbin lt;3

As of the time of this comment, now crashing

AGAIN Down

Ruggus (a former reddit alternative) and outages.

It was perhaps the single biggest unifying meme among it's user base that their backend was an absolute dumpster fire (tm)

This is what happens when people don't understand federation.

Latest, at the time of this comment: still over 4 SECONDS