• xapr@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    They’re pretty incompetent admins too. It seems that their instance is down more than it’s up. In fact, it was down right now when I tried to open that link. I don’t know why anyone stays there. Maybe they don’t and those user numbers they have are nowhere near their true active numbers. In a way this sucks for Lemmy because it’s the largest instance and people seem to be attracted to that kind of thing, so they get a bad first impression of Lemmy.

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      1 year ago

      It’s down so often because it’s the largest instance, and it’s perpetually DDOSed among other more vile attacks. Lemmy.ml is federated with them, so I see their announcement and status posts and can definitely confirm the numbers aren’t inflated.

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        1 year ago

        Here’s one of their explanation posts about the situation: https://lemmy.world/post/2923697

        All their explanations for why they’re constantly down basically go back to them letting it grow much bigger than they could handle, because they decided to be the “savior” of Lemmy. Contrast that with what the largest Mastodon instances did when the Twitter migration happened, which was to close registrations and refer people back to join-mastodon to find another instance. This included the largest instance, mastodon.social, which is run by the creator of Mastodon.

        Incompetence is understandable given that it’s new software, the sudden influx from Reddit, plus everyone makes mistakes. The bigger problem that I see is the hubris that made them decide that they could absorb all the new Lemmy users and then not ever changing that decision even after it became clear that they had major stability problems. In their effort to “save” Lemmy, they’ve actually given a lot of people a terrible first impression of it. I’ve seen countless people complain on r/RedditAlternatives about how Lemmy sucks when the details they provide make clear that it’s lemmy.world that they’re complaining about.