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Lemmy.ml and beehaw.org getting hammered with traffic because of spez ama (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Both were down for me before, they seem to be up right now but just made this account on Lemmy.blahaj.zone (Henry is the name of my actual blahaj lol). It's probably because of the traffic influx from reddit refugees from the absolutely disastrous spez ama (where he doubles down on everything and doesn't apologize at all). Allegedly they're trying to suppress Lemmy mentions but I guess it's not working well enough lol

A good problem to have although long term we're going to have to figure out how to deal with these spikes in traffic.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Maybe we should agree on a default landing server, and throw it on a scaling AWS instance?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You could also just have a website that 1. Selects a random instance from the ones currently available and up and 2. Shows all instances and whether they are up or down. This would encourage new users to not all pile on to the same instance.

I'm not very knowledgeable about this stuff (what's a docker? What's a kubernetes? Lol) but I don't think as of right now with Lemmy, kbin, etc you can just throw a bigger single server at the problem. Anyways, that's kinda against the purpose of decentralization anyway. I know you're supposed to pick a server based on what one you like, rules or whatever but right now they're pretty much all equivalent (except lemmygrad, lol)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Surely not a random instance. Lots of instances are niche or have more strict requirements on the user, even if they're public.

I'm saying again, there should be a way for instances to better propagate their interests/philosophy/politics/communitues and for the user to pick one based on that.

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

https://join-lemmy.org/instances

Should work for that, they just need to have a good newbie page with a curated selection of generic servers at the top, with a random one selected, maybe based on location?

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

Good news overall

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've been looking at different Lemmy communities the second pushshift was down (and let's just say finding things on Reddit suddenly became a lot harder because the built-in search function is kinda limited in a bunch of ways), and just made my account today out of random chance essentially LOL

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also my timing was so perfect that just as I tried to log in after getting the confirmation email, it went down. Needless to say I was kinda scared that I did something for a second before realizing that was rather unlikely

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I also got a couple of "you broke reddit" pages trying to follow the post. So even reddit servers couldn't keep up with how made people are. And this is on a Friday, traditionally the day to do things you do not want noticed.

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

Also come to reddthat.com if you need another instance option.

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