As the lemmy.ml admins expect a heavy load on their servers in the coming days, I’ve decided to run my own lemmy instance to be the dedicated forum for /r/piracy failover.
If you already have an account on lemmy.ml, you can continue using it by accessing the new community via https://lemmy.ml/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
You can also continue posting on this community as well, not going to stop anyone :D
It’s nice to have backups but doesn’t this just fracture the already small lemmy piracy community even more? Maybe running it as a mirror without the possibility to engage would be better.
Relevant: https://xkcd.com/927/
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I hear ya. For us more technically inclined folk, it’s an inconvenience. For more layman folk, it’s completely unapproachable.
Not really… they just choose the more popular one and don’t think anything more about it.
I’m with you there. Lemmy really doesn’t seem like it’s ready for primetime yet.
Lets hope not.
Reddit went downhill real fast when the DIGG exodus happened.
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Yes, but lemmy.ml went down today, before the blackout, and way ahead of the API shutdown. It WILL go down again due to the load.
This might fragment the community, but a dedicated instance by a r/Piracy mod is better than relying on one that could go down at any moment. Eventually, people will just use the new one and it won’t matter. I think this is a good call.
This is part of the reason I made my own instance. It’s now my responsibility to keep my own account functioning, not someone else’s. Anyone’s server going down won’t prevent me from using Lemmy or making comments.
Besides with piracy fracturing is good, imo. Putting all our eggs in one basket when we’re flagrantly breaking international laws is kind of a dumb move. There’s a reason every torrent you download has a billion trackers attached to it regardless of where you download it.
I think it’s ok to have both. Eventually this will be implemented which will make this moot: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818
But also, I think lemmy won’t be able to handle the load well and they won’t hear my advice on how to prepare, so I think it’s better I take responsibility for the community I’ve been nurturing for the past 10 years, myself
You’re not wrong about the load.
Until that’s implemented (which is great btw, didn’t know that was coming) - my concern is Reddit refugees will see ghost town communities and just head back to Reddit. If we try getting our small community to appear more united, it’ll encourage others to ditch Reddit all together.
As for the multi-lemmy feature - is that gonna be something we can just one click subscribe to? Or we’ll need to build out the multi ourselves? If the latter, then the concern about new users seeing ghost towns still stands.
meh… the same problem exists on reddit.
crossposting exists
Ok? Your point? It’s still more than one community.
It’s gonna be more important than ever to appear active and engaging if we want people to convert from Reddit. It’s not going to look enticing if you need to potentially look around at multiple subs to see the content that used to be on one.
the point is that it should be common practice to crosspost to multiple communities. besides, subscriptions are free. you can subscribe to all communities at once
I like this idea. It reminds me of what reddit was like for the first 3 years before subs and mods were introduced.
In the long run forking is a good thing. If there isn’t enough interest then the “problem” will take care of itself. This is foss after all.