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[Resolved] Lemmy.world currently down (www.isitdownrightnow.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That instance goes down a lot it seems. Wonder why.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the most one by far (27k monthly users vs 4k for the second one): https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It most resembles what they know and does not require them to leave it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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