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When you notice Lemmy is quieter than usual, then have a look at the Lemmy.world status (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Seems like they are under attack again, will those people never stop? I feel sorry for the admin team.

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[-] laughingm0n@lemmyhub.com 113 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] fraydabson@sopuli.xyz 27 points 2 years ago

Yes! I tried with a niche topic like fallout but can’t get people to move over from the Lemmy world community.

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[-] June@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago

I’m more of a commenter and less of a poster, but I moved away from world as my primary instance last week. Part to spread the load, part to just be able to browse.

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Commenting on your comment not because I expect you to have them or anything, it's just the top comment so hopefully someone sees this. I know there's a handful of links out there to browse instances. Are there any that can see who's defederated with who/ which instances are federated with the most instances? I had another account on a .ml domain instance but they got purged with a bunch of others a couple of weeks ago. I use my lemmy.world account because it has the most-ish reach for finding new communities and whatnot

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[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 99 points 2 years ago

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

[-] jacktherippah@lemdro.id 27 points 2 years ago

Down again it seems. People seriously need to switch away from lemmy.world. Every single time it goes down so much content goes down with it. It's annoying.

[-] dmtalon@infosec.pub 18 points 2 years ago

I did this early on after realizing my mistake, promptly moved to vlemmy.net which after a couple weeks went totally mia.

Moved again... It's a toss-up though. I want an instance big enough to stay updated, and have an active community, but not turn into .world or vlemmy.

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[-] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 89 points 2 years ago

We're not allowed to have nice things.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 70 points 2 years ago

Thankfully, other instances are still up and allow us to talk about it.

Back in the days, when Reddit or Twitter were down, it was down for the whole userbase.

[-] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 16 points 2 years ago

Yes, and we can do something about our own instances. Depending on your reverse proxy there's a couple options.

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[-] Candelestine@lemmy.ca 47 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 years ago

88% on weekly basis https://lemmy-status.org/endpoints/_lemmy-world

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[-] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] TooLazyDidntName@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago

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.

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[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] p0ppe@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Already running Cloudflare.

[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Ah shite.

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[-] Aurix@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Fish@midwest.social 16 points 2 years ago

I moved to a different instance about a month ago, after lemmy.world got hacked. I haven't had any issues on Midwest.social. I suggest other people do the same if they want Lemmy to be feasible in the long term. Get the fuck off Lemmy.world.

Here is a list of instances sorted by user count if anyone wants to move: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

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[-] kevtav@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

sh.itjust.works to the rescue

[-] SamC@lemmy.nz 13 points 2 years ago

Or find a smaller instance. If everyone joins a bigger instance it's just moving the problem

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[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

[-] AndreyAsimow@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Decoy321@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

You can always have multiple accounts

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 28 points 2 years ago

I guess the issue is to importing the huge list of blocked instances to the new account

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[-] danielton@outpost.zeuslink.net 21 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately, I don't think there is anything on mobile yet. The best tool for this is LASIM on desktop.

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[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago

Hello,

Hm, I'm afraid at this moment the most common solution is https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim, which requires a computer. Would you be able to get access to one at some point later?

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[-] hyper@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Artaca@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

I keep hearing about people switching, but is it just registering a new account at another instance? I joined world but would gladly jump instances to something more stable.

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[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 years ago

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

[-] echo@feddit.uk 15 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I also think instances just need to have more sane urls. It sounds silly but like it or not branding does matter. Instances like beehaw and sh.itjust.works just rub me the wrong way during first impressions. Even some of my friends who I've tried to introduce to Lemmy are just like..."what the fuck kinda website are you making me go to?" I am not surprised that lemmy.world is big, partly because the URL actually sounds official.

We also need super-communities that pull in content from multiple communities/instances, better multi-instance search, and a way to migrate between instances before the masses will be okay with smaller instances.

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[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 years ago

Hopefully more will join smaller instances.

[-] Stinkywinks@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Why are people attacking a msg board?

[-] Wiz@midwest.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Because there's a very small chance one of the message board users might click on a link and get scammed for money?

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[-] Zengen@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] waterbogan@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

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

[-] jerrimu@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Nighed@sffa.community 20 points 2 years ago

If it's just for lurking, look for a small one to help spread the load.

Try the one I'm on if your into sci-fi or fantasy

[-] CheshireSnake@lemdit.com 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

+1 to this. Imho it's not good for lemmy as a whole if people are concentrated on a few large instances. Any time one of those major instances experience issues, the effect is going be major.

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[-] YaksDC@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

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?

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[-] Cpo@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

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