This is why we need users to spread to more servers and create communities in them. If lemmy.world goes down that shouldn't result in half of lemmyhub disappearing.

And it's back up again! Kudos to the team!

We're not allowed to have nice things.

It's been this way for weeks, actually. I haven't seen a graph of the uptime, but I'm sure one would look extremely ugly, based on my own user experience.

This right here is an alt, and despite the fact that I don't prefer to comment from it, since I won't necessarily check in soon to see replies, it's seeing some heavy use.

The attacks a few weeks ago weren't a one-off, they never stopped. It seems down maybe half the time or so?

One of the many ways we (all of Lemmy) are not quite ready for the mainstream yet, we still have basic technical/security issues to resolve. Soon, though.

What does not kill you, makes you stronger. The only thing these script kiddies are doing is strength training the world admins.

Its really unfortunate. Im working on setting up my own personal instance right now. Im really grateful for all the work Lemmy.world has done, but im just getting tired of not being able to use Lemmy maybe 1/8th of the time I open the app.

Just a +1 for decentralized social media. The fact that I can just set up my own instance when im not 100% happy with the one im currently on is awesome.

Are they suffering DDOS attacks? They might need something like Cloudflare to combat this. Maybe some kind of reverse-proxy if the attack isn't super massive.

I think lemmy.world is too large for the health of the fediverse. A nasty incident which takes it down permanently could "kill" Lemmy as a whole. Perhaps a sign up stop is in order.

sh.itjust.works to the rescue

It's getting really annoying. Is there an mobile friendly way to migrate my account from lemmy.world to lemmy.zip?

lemmy.world has been so unstable for that I decided to switch to another instance. That's the beauty of the Fediverse though.
I setup my own Uptime Kuma Monitor for lemmy.world just for fun.. the statistics are crazy

Status page: https://lemmy-status.org/endpoints/_lemmy-world

It was always going to happen but an instance being the defacto default for Lemmy is a bad thing.

There really needs to be a tool to help people pick an instance, but even then people would just flock to the general instances like .world anyway

Those guys can't catch a break. By whom or why are they getting attacked anyway?

Hopefully more will join smaller instances.

Why are people attacking a msg board?

They want to put out the fire. Let us show them the strength of the Hydra. Cut off one head and a thousand more shall take its place. We all remember what happened when they tried to end the piratebay.

Yeah who are these fucks? Whats their damage? Somebody oughta go knock some sense into them

I need another instance so I can lurk when this happens.

I would love to try a new instance but then I have to recreate a rather large block list.

Is there a way to copy your block list from one instance to another?

Exactly for that reason I have created a second account on lemm.ee.

There is even a nice Python script to propagate your subscriptions and block lists to one or more other accounts.

Find it here: https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate

Hi from my alt. I just have like 4 alt accounts I switch between.