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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] 26 points 1 year ago

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!)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Finally signed up for another instance cause world went down

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you! :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This is the way

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, I agree. Choosing which instance to be the backup though, was a little hard lol

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

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.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ah great, seems like it's back online!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The page loads, but there seems to be an issue with backend. So the status page doesn't report anything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Indeed, and now it's 502 Nginx error

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

I’m still not able to load anything in the webpage or my apps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It’s still down despite what that page says. I haven’t been able to get in all morning.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Update: http://lemmy-status.org/

Seems quite useful right now

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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

It's back up now

[–] [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.

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

Think it's down. Is that why hot is full of different communities?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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?