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[–] [email protected] 132 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Plot twist: it's the lemmy.ml team doing the ddos'ing

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean they did say the attackers had intimate knowledge of Lemmy so…

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

That is not saying anything, the full documentation and source code is public for everyone to read.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Time to point fingers (at other instances)!!!1

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think those programming.dev guy's did it \s

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lemm.ee has been unhinged for too long!

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

who is doing the ddosing is prime material for conspiracy theories

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Conspiracy theorists are doing the ddosing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

"Can't have a problem if I'm the problem"

points to head

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

It's obviously funded by spez

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

Ugh. For five peaceful seconds I'd forgotten about that ungainly rat.

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

It's like the game but with Spez

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Screw you, I forgot about the game.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ah yes, so they have another large instance to ddos

Use smaller instances like lemmy.zip or lemm.ee. You know, the entire point of decentralization.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not just about users though, we need to separate communities as well. There are so many communities on lemmy.world currently.

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

This. I feel like world isn't prioritizing the health of the entirety of Lemmy by not closing community creation.

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

Isn't that up to the creators though. If world is their home instance, why would they create elsewhere? Not being able to create communities would kind of defeat the purpose.

If creators want engagement, they will create on subs with more uptime. That will likely be world in the future, when hardened. The ddos attacks aren't good for Lemmy now, but it should iron out some wrinkles in the long run for all instances. I think the world admins are doing a great job, both technically and communication wise.

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

I think you put too much stock into the ddos explanation. I'm not saying it's not a thing, but there are bigger issues that it seems won't be resolved before Lemmy 1.0

Regarding your first question, tf is my home but I have created communities on different instances. Some instances because the community fits the instance, some because I like the URL. I figure it's best to decentralise as much as possible.

As to your last point, I think some of what the admins at world have done is tremendous and I celebrate their commitment to world, but there's limitations to the software, as they well know and ultimately this is a decentralised platform of which loads of little instances are supposed to make up the larger whole.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Lemmy needs a refpost system where you can choose to post articles to different instances that link together.

You then can get all the benefits of centralization without necessarily being centralized.

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

How long will it take, do you think, for lemm.ee to become one of the bigger instances? I keep seeing people mention it, and that's why I'm here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

lemm.ee is larger than lemmy.ml by active users monthly, as such it's already the second largest instance. Don't let the "total users" number confuse you: lemmy.ml is ancient and is bound to have many inactive accounts.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I actually migrated to lemmy.ca, eh, since lemmy.world is down half the fucking time. I have enemies to destroy, and I don't got time for that shit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lemmy.ca is the superior instance and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Would be great if people spread out a bit.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Use small instances. I've never had trouble on lemdro.id.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How do I even find other instances? Not trying to sound like a turd, I just legitimately haven't looked into it at all yet

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You could use lemmyverse.net to look what instances and communities there are

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think it usually just involves look around the comment sections. People are like "I'm on this instance, it's good blah blah blah."

In my case though I chose lemdro.id because it's an instance that centers around a topic I'm interested in.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Or make your own

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

This is the way.

Don't join big instances. There should be no main instance. Join small instances. Spread the load

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] SpaceXplorer_8042 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Meanwhile me on lemmy.zip -

grabs popcorn

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I truly dislike .zip domain names tho

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Are they too compressed for you? ;)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

lemmy.sdf.org is a nice instance.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Kbin.social has been incredibly solid recently

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm a big fan, just wish it didn't block so much nsfw stuff

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

I feel like it’s been pretty solid the whole time.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

can't wait for them to blame another instance with no evidence whatsoever

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