I recommend asking in its own post on !lemmy@lemmy.ml
If nobody answers in some days, then I’d create a feature request on GitHub.
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That most likely means that their server didn’t reply to the API query at the time the table was generated (sometimes the big instances disappear due to load).
Check again in 1 hour when it runs again ;)
Edit: it’s back. At the time of writing, Lemmygrad.ml is blocking 40 instances and is blocked by 77 instances.
Suddenly my server started getting thousands of requests per minute and my varnish cache hit rate jumped to 99%. Thank god for varnish!
Looks like the reddit blackout is #1 on the frontpage of hackernews, and this article is #2.
I actually posted this article to hackernews, but I never got a single upvote. This isn’t my first time getting on the frontpage of hackernews, but it always happens when someone else reposts my link.
Can anyone tell me how the fuck hackernews’ algorithm works to where I can’t ever get traction but someone else does after me?
I made a text-and-images version of this guide:
Added to the article. Thanks for the suggestion :)
You should ask in /c/mlemapp
And if it’s a bug, please report it on GitHub
Edit: A quick search on github issues brought this up
Thanks! Yeah, I linked to it in the bottom of the article. There’s some other good links there that you may want to checkout as well :)
I made a text-and-images version of this guide:
The only thing I need to improve this article is a short video demonstration showing how to find and add remote lemmy communities
Are there any video producers on Lemmy that can help? You’ll easily get thousands unique views per day if you make a short “Guide to Lemmy” video :)
Thanks! Please also let me know if you’re aware of any other lemmy communities (for video content creators) where we can cross-post this to <3
I’m actually very surprised how high the uptime is on most of these instances.
The
awesome-lemmy-instancesrepo on GitHub displays uptime:
This list may help newcomers:
At what point do you plan to close this instance to new users?
See this list of “Privacy-Conscious Email Services”
Honestly I’m not sure I’ll stick to lemmy if the amount of content doesn’t grow. And I’m sure I’m not alone. I’m here for news, and there’s very little coverage of world events on lemmy (though that has already noticeably improved as our userbase grows).
I do want lemmy to grow, but not for growth’s sake. I want it to grow so the content (news article submissions and quality comments about those articles) grows.
- Downvotes are important to ensure quality content. It allows the community address statements made by a user based on objectively incorrect (mis)information. This feature is an important reason why many reddit users aren’t on Mastodon. Also, democracy is important.
- Recommended Instances shouldn’t wholesale block content just because it’s NSFW. As you say, policy on what NSFW content is allowed is distinct from the instance enabling NSFW content.
- People being able to create and moderate their own communities is positive
If an instance (eg Hexbear) wants to deviate from this, that’s fine. That’s what the Fediverse is all about :) But we shouldn’t recommend those instances to new users as it will cause new user attrition.
That’s not going to happen automatically, but we can manually remove instances that go down.
I only know of one site that monitors uptime of lemmy instances:
They do have an API, but I’m not sure yet how to query it (help would be appreciated!)
I’m not 100% sure, but my interpretation of that message is that you’re waiting for the federated servers to communicate, and you can close the page.