Seems like there's a lot of instances struggling. Props to all the admins out there fighting to keep their stuff running (and don't forget to decentralize!)
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2023
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Finally signed up for another instance cause world went down
This is the way. Users should try to spread themselves out when possible so that any one instance doesn't get overloaded.
I keep 2 alt accounts (on different instances) in case my main account goes down.
I'm debating spinning up my own instance. I plan to cycle through accounts every so often like I did on Reddit (used to be 1-2 years), so I'll probably just change instances when I do.
For now, this instance seems to work well, so I'm sticking to it.
imho this reflects a huge failure of the fediverse. Our accounts shouldn't be tied to an instance that's hosting content, they should be on a an auth-only server that only is responsible for managing our identity, separate from the content-servers. Then it would be up to content-servers to decide how much content they want to federate about an identity to show on that user's profile-page on this particular content-server. Like either federating it right in (hey here's @Pxtl's profile/feed scraped from every fediverse server they use directly) or just autogenerating links to their content on other servers (we don't want to host content from HowToBlowUpAPipelineLemmy.org on Lemmy.world but here's a link to @Pxtl's posts there).
Wouldn't it be cool to have the same identity on Mastodon as on Lemmy?
Then you could continue to participate in the fediverse without creating a new user-account on every server. Of course, the auth servers would still be vulnerable to outage but since they're lower load and just providing auth they'd be much less vulnerable.
Well done!
Thank you! :)
This is the way
I created this account on a different instance yesterday because I was having the same problem. Looks like I'll be using it today too. Always good to have a backup.
Yeah, I agree. Choosing which instance to be the backup though, was a little hard lol
It's not, at least in regards to lemmy.world. it's so generic that it's easy to find another that has the same rules (ie, very few rules). It's better to use your backups than not. That's one of the reasons lemmy.world is down. Folks aren't spreading out. They're not taking advantage of the fediverse and are making a single point of failure where there shouldn't be one.
I can barely decide what I want for dinner lol don’t underestimate the power of indecisiveness. I also wanted to make sure I chose an instance that had decent admins and a domain not being reclaimed.
And I’d cut people some slack, lotta people are used to everything being centralized. It’s gonna take time for everyone to learn the wonder that is the fediverse. I’m more than willing to ride this bumpy wave as the fediverse grows
Usually, I just look at https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list, see which one has a decent amount of monthly users (1m) so that the All feed is still pretty full, and I check how is the ping
Ah great, seems like it's back online!
The page loads, but there seems to be an issue with backend. So the status page doesn't report anything.
Indeed, and now it's 502 Nginx error
I’m still not able to load anything in the webpage or my apps.
It’s still down despite what that page says. I haven’t been able to get in all morning.
It's been down for two and a half hours at this point. I hope they're able to resuscitate. Always good to have a side instance.
It's back up now
That instance goes down a lot it seems. Wonder why.
It's the most one by far (27k monthly users vs 4k for the second one): https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
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.
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
If they join to use local, and it works well for them, why would they switch to a smaller instance?
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.
My guess is to distribute users more evenly across instances. Mo' users mo' problems.
It most resembles what they know and does not require them to leave it.
There's not much to worry about federation though. I'm not even on a Lemmy server and I see plenty of Lemmy.world.
They should disable signups for a while to allow the user load to start distributing more evenly across other instances.
Think it's down. Is that why hot is full of different communities?
It was working fine for me, and then today it was extremely slow. Maybe because of continuing influx of users?
Anyway, does anyone know of a way to transfer communities to different instances?
It's really been slow lately. Not blaming them, no one expected Reddit to implode and introduce a higher influx of users! But if possible, we should all sign up and browse from less overwhelmed servers; you still get all the same content!
Raw deal