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They said themselves the issue isn't signups or server capacity, it's that they've been under multiple rounds of DDoS attacks.
Why are they being DDoS'd though? I thought it was because they're the biggest instance and thus shutting down still helps
Well, by that logic, if they shut down, the the next largest will be targeted, and then the next largest, etc. That's not a winning game for anyone involved...
Right but we'll be more decentralized so any such attack won't affect the threadiverse as much. Right now every time .world goes down the entire fediverse feels half dead because it's so large.
But if this happens 7 times and there's now 7 major instances, each will only take up like 10% of the total and attacking it won't affect much.
In that sense, getting more decentralized is basically a natural evolution of the big instances being attacked. I'm just trying to speed it up.
Yeah but why give new users a bad experience, you're just gonna drive them away from Lemmy and they never come back
Also we're overly centralized on them, we need to decentralize better, both users and communities
I mean, that could happen to any other Lemmy instance too, unfortunately. And even if you do decentralize, a server going down still deprives the rest of us of that content, so it's never not going to cause some issues. So I wouldn't hold this against Lemmy.world.
I don't hold it against them, it's just unfortunate that they've been having so much downtime recently, certainly more than most other good instances