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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] 38 points 1 year ago (18 children)

It feels like user accounts need to be abstracted away from instances somehow. Federation means it's almost meaningless which instance you register with, and as integration between instances and other Fediverse apps gets better it will just become more and more meaningless. It should be possible to just "Join Lemmy" and have the servers behind the scenes handle spreading the load. You should be able to login to Lemmy from Beehaw.org or Lemmy.ml or any other Lemmy instance. The way it works at the moment is kind of like content is global but accounts aren't and it feels like it should be the other way around?

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

This is something that made me stop using Mastodon, too many instances with bad method of connecting them. I'd much prefer that instances aren't seen to the user (I wouldn't mind somewhere with the text "this community is hosted by X on server Y"). But seeing @username@instance is weird and many Reddit refugees won't have any idea what does it mean. I mean, the concept of federated network is complex already.

I've also encountered a lot of bugs in my short time of use which I'd like to see fixed, but I'm not sure where can I report them, or to see if they are reported already.

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