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[–] [email protected] 188 points 1 year ago

Rightfully so.

Lemmy servers are hosted by just some people that often don't even accept donations, shoulder the entire legal liability and are sys admin all together by themselves.

And then there is the clownshow reddit being a gigantic company and not even able to not be a gigantic shitshow.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I'm actually seeing more and more .world users getting pissed as the downtimes become more frequent now.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean that is the problem of too many people being on that one instance.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I mean that is the problem of too many people being on that one instance.

From what I understand, capacity isn't the issue, it's that they're being repeatedly DDoS'ed

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It's a chicken and egg problem, their high popularity makes them a ddos target

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Careful, you might have to interact with spooky scary communists if you switch it up! specter

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's what happened to me and I'm radicalized now.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I moved instances after the downtime when Sync came out, it's been smooth sailing since

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (11 children)

IF you want to switch to an alternative instance use the tool Lasim to synchronize your accounts: synchronize subscriptions, settings and/or blocks. Tool is available for Windows, Linux and MacOs.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Cuz you can just use another smaller instance, as you should.

Lemmy.zip and lemm.ee are cool

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone talking about how small and better lemm.ee is really starting to give "have you heard about this hidden gem The Witcher 3?" vibes.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

lemm.ee isn't even that small. It's the 6th largest active lemmy instance iirc

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Hidden. Gem.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's the point of the joke, the witcher 3 is a huge game but people always act like they're in on some secret for knowing that it's good.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

For all the people that like to talk about having access to the whole fediverse and decide for themselves who to block...

mander.xyz and ttrpg.network are both rather niche instances in their own right, but don't defederate, and I don't believe are defederated by, anyone.

No one join them and say/do anything toxic though, don't ruin a good thing for me lol

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Tbh I've just stopped using my world account at this point. Lemmy.ca has been much more reliable so far lol.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (10 children)

If only federation existed... and other instances existed....

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (20 children)

I've been trying to find a smaller instance and I tried a couple, they see waaaaaay different things. I can't even see lemmy.world on one of them. I might have to keep all of the instances and just jump around.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Join mine! I run several tools in order to federate with the most popular content automatically. I'm keeping user count limited, but sign ups are open at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I seriously like your rules, lol.

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

I like to keep shit simple. :D

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gotta love decentralised shit

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

I never gave reddit 1c and blocked all ads. I donate to lemmy.world.

I have zero anger when lemmy is down, I despised reddit, especially towards the end.

I really wish more people would donate to lemmy I think it's totally fair to pay for someone to manage and help with running the site.

It's hard to just say "volunteer".... Even if people volunteer and we can only afford to send 50% of their fee their way it's still something....

If we want lemmy to thrive without ads we have to all pitch in. Just give 2$/ month... If we all did that we'd be able to hire people full time...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Up time 76% on lemmy.world // last 24h.
No message from any of their admis.
Outside attack : usual shitheads. And if ~~LM~~ LW fails, they will attack the next big one.

Edit #1 : LM is Lemmy.world
Edit #2 : oups LW ... not LM
Edit #3 : Lemmy.World status
Edit #4 : from 4am utc //24h :

users who wanted LM explanation :@[email protected]
@15liam20@[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (8 children)

wjats so good about lemmy.world compared to lemmy.ml

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

More letters

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

Lemmy.world is run by the same people as mastodon.world. I guess a lot of users from mastodon.world went to Lemmy.world and the rest was word of mouth.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think the name does a lot of heavy lifting in regards to pulling in new users. It sounds more official or general because of the world part.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lemmy.world isn't run by communists

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

that sounds like a downside, unless you mean the kinda USSR/Chinese "communists" that are just state capitalists/feudalists

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The funny thing is that Reddit with its big teams and infrastructure was also sluggish and going down a lot this week and we keep forgetting that. No excuses for Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I mean communities being on world is an issue too.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I switched to lemm.ee, it's much more stable since it's not constantly being attacked by script kiddies. I have a theory a user got banned, and is making it their personal mission to ruin .world's performance. Please donate to your home instance owner(s) if they have that set up. Even if it's just a little, it can make everyone's experience better.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

That wouldn't surprise me, I've seen ddos's against smaller servers over dumber things.

But given that they preemptively ban instances for not supporting NATO and the IMF and don't preemptively ban nazi, transphobe, and pedophile instances, fuck em.

The fediverse is weaker if .world is allowed to color people's perception of Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Understandable since one is a government funded fedposting psyop running on servers in the basement of the FBI building. The other is Reddit.

Ayyyyyyy.

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

this is the opposite on reddit (obvious reasons). ppl go ham when someone mentions lemmy.world is down lol

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Which is especially funny since you can just log into a different instance and keep browsing, unlike with Reddit.

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

Reddit servers down? Didn't notice

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