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
Well done!
Thank you! :)
This is the way
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?
My guess is to distribute users more evenly across instances. Mo' users mo' problems.
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.
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