• 𝓒𝔂𝓫𝓮𝓻𝓑𝓸𝔂@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      This is the way. Users should try to spread themselves out when possible so that any one instance doesn’t get overloaded.

      I keep 2 alt accounts (on different instances) in case my main account goes down.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        I’m debating spinning up my own instance. I plan to cycle through accounts every so often like I did on Reddit (used to be 1-2 years), so I’ll probably just change instances when I do.

        For now, this instance seems to work well, so I’m sticking to it.

      • Pxtl@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        imho this reflects a huge failure of the fediverse. Our accounts shouldn’t be tied to an instance that’s hosting content, they should be on a an auth-only server that only is responsible for managing our identity, separate from the content-servers. Then it would be up to content-servers to decide how much content they want to federate about an identity to show on that user’s profile-page on this particular content-server. Like either federating it right in (hey here’s @Pxtl’s profile/feed scraped from every fediverse server they use directly) or just autogenerating links to their content on other servers (we don’t want to host content from HowToBlowUpAPipelineLemmy.org on Lemmy.world but here’s a link to @Pxtl’s posts there).

        Wouldn’t it be cool to have the same identity on Mastodon as on Lemmy?

        Then you could continue to participate in the fediverse without creating a new user-account on every server. Of course, the auth servers would still be vulnerable to outage but since they’re lower load and just providing auth they’d be much less vulnerable.

    • BMO@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I created this account on a different instance yesterday because I was having the same problem. Looks like I’ll be using it today too. Always good to have a backup.

        • pjhenry1216@kbin.social
          3·
          1 year ago

          It’s not, at least in regards to lemmy.world. it’s so generic that it’s easy to find another that has the same rules (ie, very few rules). It’s better to use your backups than not. That’s one of the reasons lemmy.world is down. Folks aren’t spreading out. They’re not taking advantage of the fediverse and are making a single point of failure where there shouldn’t be one.

          • DangerToad@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I can barely decide what I want for dinner lol don’t underestimate the power of indecisiveness. I also wanted to make sure I chose an instance that had decent admins and a domain not being reclaimed.

            And I’d cut people some slack, lotta people are used to everything being centralized. It’s gonna take time for everyone to learn the wonder that is the fediverse. I’m more than willing to ride this bumpy wave as the fediverse grows

  • s6original@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    It’s been down for two and a half hours at this point. I hope they’re able to resuscitate. Always good to have a side instance.

      • Nepenthe@kbin.social
        10·
        1 year ago

        And even knowing that, it’s still the one everyone advertises. Drives me insane. Is federation between that and the smaller lemmy instances still janky or something? Because if it’s not, there’s little to no reason.

        • Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          I usually recommend it to new joiners so that they don’t have to worry about federation right away and can just use the local communities.

          After that, I encourage them to move to smaller instances, but I guess they are just comfortable there

          • snooggums@kbin.social
            7·
            1 year ago

            If they join to use local, and it works well for them, why would they switch to a smaller instance?

            • Blaze@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              They should switch to smaller instances to help distribute the load and avoid situations such as this one when LW is probably attacked because it is the most populous server.

            • BMO@lemm.eeEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              My guess is to distribute users more evenly across instances. Mo’ users mo’ problems.

          • pjhenry1216@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            There’s not much to worry about federation though. I’m not even on a Lemmy server and I see plenty of Lemmy.world.

    • formatc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      They should disable signups for a while to allow the user load to start distributing more evenly across other instances.

  • radicalrusty@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    It was working fine for me, and then today it was extremely slow. Maybe because of continuing influx of users?

    Anyway, does anyone know of a way to transfer communities to different instances?

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    It’s really been slow lately. Not blaming them, no one expected Reddit to implode and introduce a higher influx of users! But if possible, we should all sign up and browse from less overwhelmed servers; you still get all the same content!

    • Ruud@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Bored script kiddies have time in the weekends when they are allowed screen time by their mommies. Then they create scripts to bombard our server and grind the thing to a halt. Gives us the opportunity to improve things like rate limiting etc every time, but also means some downtime…

      • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        You guys are doing fine ruud, I don’t have as much time to waste on the weekends so I didn’t even notice the down time