Seems like they are under attack again, will those people never stop? I feel sorry for the admin team.

  • LaughingM0n
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    1131 year ago

    This is why we need users to spread to more servers and create communities in them. If lemmy.world goes down that shouldn’t result in half of lemmyhub disappearing.

    • @fraydabson@sopuli.xyz
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      271 year ago

      Yes! I tried with a niche topic like fallout but can’t get people to move over from the Lemmy world community.

          • Ben Hur Horse Race
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            101 year ago

            Right… I guess for me I’m not sure it’s all that productive to start multiple communities on the same topic? I dunno, maybe it’s good. If I’m looking for something specific, like, say turntables, and I search lemmy for a turntable community, I’m not sure it’d be a good thing to find 3-4 different lemmy communities on the topic. Perhaps I’m just thinking in older, outdated, reddit kind of thinking though.

            • @fraydabson@sopuli.xyz
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              Yeah I get it. My goal was since the Lemmy world community was pretty inactive if I can post more to encourage activity on mine I can make mine more active and the defacto community which helps get people off of Lemmy world.

              If it were a community that is highly active on Lemmy world then I understand it doesn’t seem productive to re create active communities.

              I have heard other people voice opinions that having multiple of the same communities over different instances is a good thing with how Lemmy works. I do wish we had a federated community so as people make more communities on different instances it more merges them into one so if one instance goes down the others are still keeping the community alive. But idk if that’s possible or on the Lemmy roadmap.

          • Coelacanth
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            21 year ago

            Did you advertise it on the New Communities community?

    • @June@lemm.ee
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      181 year ago

      I’m more of a commenter and less of a poster, but I moved away from world as my primary instance last week. Part to spread the load, part to just be able to browse.

    • @BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.world
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      91 year ago

      Commenting on your comment not because I expect you to have them or anything, it’s just the top comment so hopefully someone sees this. I know there’s a handful of links out there to browse instances. Are there any that can see who’s defederated with who/ which instances are federated with the most instances? I had another account on a .ml domain instance but they got purged with a bunch of others a couple of weeks ago. I use my lemmy.world account because it has the most-ish reach for finding new communities and whatnot

      • LaughingM0n
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        Currently no, there isn’t a way to see that granular of detail. On my instance I have details about any defederated (blocked) instances. Currently there are none.

        But there are pros and cons of joining smaller server. Since mine is small we don’t see a large list of communities, I make a point to go through and subscribe to a bunch everyday so my users can get the best experience. But without others doing some of the leg work it can be challenging. Bigger instances like lemmy.world have “seeded” with communities all over because of their large user base. Not only does lemmy.world have a ton of communities but their users have subscribed to communities outside the instance making it discoverable to others.

        https://lemmyverse.net/ https://browse.feddit.de/

      • @MBM@lemmings.world
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        01 year ago

        Unless you want to see porn or troll instances, I don’t think there’s a big difference between instances except for the fact that beehaw isn’t federated with lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works

    • Skoobie
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      51 year ago

      Glad I’m realizing this before getting too attached to any one account. Setting up on a few instances now.

    • Blaze (he/him)OP
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      701 year ago

      Thankfully, other instances are still up and allow us to talk about it.

      Back in the days, when Reddit or Twitter were down, it was down for the whole userbase.

      • sj_zero
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        Yes, and we can do something about our own instances. Depending on your reverse proxy there’s a couple options.

      • @TheBestUsername@lemmy.world
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        41 year ago

        how? I just use Sync for Lemmy and it seems like everything is down when lemmy.world is. I don’t really know how Lemmy works, or where different things I subscribe to are based.

        • Illecors
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          191 year ago

          Your account is on lemmy.world, so it fails to get any and all data. Accounts on other instances can interact with historic data.

        • @SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de
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          101 year ago

          You have to think of lemmy.world as your lemmy provider. Just like with e-mail you have your own email provider from the ISP, or gmail, or … If your own provider is down, you can’t receive or send mails, but all other people can send mails to each other. It’s the same with lemmy, but then for reading posts and send comments to that instance/provider.

    • @lemmyporn@lemmynsfw.com
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      01 year ago

      The company running lw are asking for free unpaid 150k+a year admin work.

      Fuck them. Someone run this personally and start a non profit.

  • @Candelestine@lemmy.ca
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    471 year ago

    It’s been this way for weeks, actually. I haven’t seen a graph of the uptime, but I’m sure one would look extremely ugly, based on my own user experience.

    This right here is an alt, and despite the fact that I don’t prefer to comment from it, since I won’t necessarily check in soon to see replies, it’s seeing some heavy use.

    The attacks a few weeks ago weren’t a one-off, they never stopped. It seems down maybe half the time or so?

    One of the many ways we (all of Lemmy) are not quite ready for the mainstream yet, we still have basic technical/security issues to resolve. Soon, though.

  • @Chickenstalker@lemmy.world
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    431 year ago

    What does not kill you, makes you stronger. The only thing these script kiddies are doing is strength training the world admins.

    • @lemmyporn@lemmynsfw.com
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      Yeah fucking up uptime during a period people are looking to migrate away from an ingrained product is definitely the path to a successful and strong network. Just like asking for unpaid admins (typically $100-200 an hour) to price on call duty for free.

      What you are seeing is a business cheap out, have zero clue or plan about scale, not give two fucks about privacy, and trick you all into giving that business a free pass for being shitty and execute poorly.

      This isn’t making shit stronger. It means normies will always make sure this place is the new 4chan.

  • Too Lazy Didn't Name
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    361 year ago

    Its really unfortunate. Im working on setting up my own personal instance right now. Im really grateful for all the work Lemmy.world has done, but im just getting tired of not being able to use Lemmy maybe 1/8th of the time I open the app.

    Just a +1 for decentralized social media. The fact that I can just set up my own instance when im not 100% happy with the one im currently on is awesome.

    • LaughingM0n
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      71 year ago

      Right, and thats the issue. I host an instance but we only have a few users. Our instance does run very very well though because we don’t get a ton of user traffic.

      • Annoyed_🦀 A
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        I think the point is you host your instance so you won’t add to the load of World, so it doesn’t have to be many user. Some people even run single user instance.

  • @Dasnap@lemmy.world
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    351 year ago

    Are they suffering DDOS attacks? They might need something like Cloudflare to combat this. Maybe some kind of reverse-proxy if the attack isn’t super massive.

  • @Aurix@lemmy.world
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    261 year ago

    I think lemmy.world is too large for the health of the fediverse. A nasty incident which takes it down permanently could “kill” Lemmy as a whole. Perhaps a sign up stop is in order.

    • Fish [Indiana]
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      161 year ago

      I moved to a different instance about a month ago, after lemmy.world got hacked. I haven’t had any issues on Midwest.social. I suggest other people do the same if they want Lemmy to be feasible in the long term. Get the fuck off Lemmy.world.

      Here is a list of instances sorted by user count if anyone wants to move: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

    • @jeffhykin@lemm.ee
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      Instead of blocking sign-ups we can have Lemmy’s sign up automatically recommend other servers.

      Another developer and I already have a PR in development for it.

      Here’s the idea in more detail: https://lemm.ee/post/2800726

    • gabe [he/him]
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      11 year ago

      I agree, but they plan on making a message on the sign up screen encouraging users but not stopping sign up so… 🤷‍♂️

  • @AndreyAsimow@lemmy.zip
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    201 year ago

    It’s getting really annoying. Is there an mobile friendly way to migrate my account from lemmy.world to lemmy.zip?

      • Blaze (he/him)OP
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        281 year ago

        I guess the issue is to importing the huge list of blocked instances to the new account

        • Decoy321
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          71 year ago

          I’ll concede, that’s a legitimately useful timesaver.

          • Blaze (he/him)OP
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            131 year ago

            Because I have no interest in them, or they are NSFW and don’t tag properly, or they are duplicates with ones I already follow (technology communities are a good example)

            • @skankhunt42@lemmy.ca
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              51 year ago

              I personally follow all the technology communities and just show new subscribed content on my main page. Some content is the same but there’s a lot of different posts too.

              It kind of sucks that there’s several sub’s with a lot of people but then again, that’s the point, right?

              • Blaze (he/him)OP
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                21 year ago

                You do you, I just prefer to block them, as long as we are both happy, that’s what matters!

          • @CMahaff@lemm.ee
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            LASIM author here - it should! Though Mac OS X is the one platform I can’t test on myself - I can build it through Github, and everything I did should be cross-platform, but I can’t actually launch it myself to make sure everything is working fine.

            Only other thing might be if their work Macbook imposes any restrictions on running arbitrary binaries from the internet - which it understandably might.

  • @hyper@lemmy.zip
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    171 year ago

    lemmy.world has been so unstable for that I decided to switch to another instance. That’s the beauty of the Fediverse though.
    I setup my own Uptime Kuma Monitor for lemmy.world just for fun… the statistics are crazy

  • Altima NEO
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    151 year ago

    Those guys can’t catch a break. By whom or why are they getting attacked anyway?