Did they give up?

  • @Bloodwoodsrisen@lemmy.tf
    4•2 years ago

    I ended up creating an alt account on lemmy.blahaj.zone because lemmy.tf was down, so now I have two accounts with the same username wirh one as a back up

    • @shagie@programming.dev
      1•2 years ago

      You can move your account somewhere else, but if you’re subscribed to… say… !technology@lemmy.world then even though you’re on another instance, you’d still be trying to fetch and read content from lemmy.world. If lemmy.world were to go down, then the only content you would see on that /c/ would be from other people on sh.itjust.works and never any of the comments from lemmy.ee or lemmy.ca - who would also have similar problems of isolation of comments.

      Lemmy.world going down would mean that the tens of thousands of people who subscribe to /c’s hosted on there would be isolated from each other.

      Moving user accounts isn’t sufficient. Moving a /c to another instance is a significant undertaking of trying to get people to do it.

      • @1984@lemmy.today
        1•2 years ago

        So create more technology communities on different instances? We have the technology for it now.

        !technology@lemmy.today

        I created this one today because we need more, and we need to spread out. If you don’t want to join lemmy.today, start a community on your own instance. But spread out.

        • @shagie@programming.dev
          1•2 years ago

          I am on an instance that has the finer granularity of the technology topics and the corresponding subscribers to make the posts and comments interesting.

          Small, general topic instances means that now I’ve got a dozen copies of the same post scattered through my feed with only a few people on each talking to each other.

          Spreading out is ok… but spreading out too far makes people more isolated and content even harder to discover. Why should I subscribe to that instance rather than:

          … or any of the next 20 /c that show up that have less than a dozen people subscribed.

          I also don’t want to have to wade through a score of posts that Bram Moolenaar died in my feed. One or two will do (one in a general technology /c/ that I subscribe to one in !text_editors@programming.dev ).

          What is the value proposition of another /c/technology on a small, general interest instance?

          It’s ok to do it… but I am only subscribed to one because there’s a sufficiently large subscriber count and they’re active about moderating. If there was another techlemmy instance that was able to develop a sufficient community of people around the /c/ hosted there, I’d be interested… but subscribing to every instance that is spread out is more clutter in my subscribed section than I want to deal with.

  • @hoodlem@hoodlem.meEnglish
    4•2 years ago

    I know they were going to start using Cloudflare, which will handle DDOS among other things. Not sure if they have started yet.

  • Corgana
    77•2 years ago

    It’s up (and fast) for me rn. They have been getting DDOS’d in a way specifically targeted for sites running Lemmy. Lemmy is still beta software so hopefully this can be a growing experience for the greater Fediverse. The .world admins are some of the most capable out there.

    • queermunist she/her
      58•2 years ago

      It’s amazing how federation makes it so those of us on different instances don’t even notice when .world gets DDOS’d

      • r00ty
        28•2 years ago

        Well, a lot of the communities are hosted on world. I know they make the biggest single contribution to my federation ingress. So, I mean you will kinda notice a bit of a content drought if they’re down long enough.

        • BaŝtoEnglish
          1•2 years ago

          I subscribed 10 on lemmy.ml and 8 on lemmy.world.

          lemmy.world is definitely the biggest instance with it’s 126k users, but lemmy.ml with 46k, lemmynsfw with 35k, hexbear with 24k and sh.itjust.works with 22k aren’t small either

          Yes, lemmy.world is the biggest, but the next four biggest instances combined have just as many users.

        • queermunist she/her
          23•2 years ago

          You aren’t wrong, but also a lot of the communities I subscribe to aren’t on .world so I still have content.

          Normally a DDoS would mean I have to go find something else to do!

          • r00ty
            6•2 years ago

            Yes, it’s by far a better situation that the rest of the threadiverse goes on. But, it’s definitely a large block of communities over there.