Things have been incredibly unstable there. Until things stabilise, they should force the traffic elsewhere.

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    1 year ago

    There’s no perfect solution but I certainly didn’t move to a decentralized platform only to see it be intentionally centralized through inaction.

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      The quantity of users on Lemmy I still consider to be pretty low, the performance bugs need to be addressed on a big server. Bugs like not having a WHERE clause on an UPDATE hitting 1500 rows in a table (one row per server) instead of 1 single row… these need to be shaken out.

      The errors of the overload themselves have been a way to throttle growth of the big servers. People were not able to insert new posts and comments into Lemmy.ml - reducing outbound federation activity too, and they went to other servers. This went on all of June and July.