I have noticed recent slowness on this instance today, it wasn’t like this previously, the server is under heavy load, which makes sense because right now, we are gaining 100 new users or more each hour.

Please bear with the instance, it’s totally worth sticking around. Lemmy is the future and is going through some growing pains but will equalise over time.

Update: found this post https://lemmy.world/post/305667

The user count may not be genuine users and I feel that Lemmy instances might be under a type of DDOS attack