Growing pains from being popular. It will get sorted out. Same thing happened to Twitter and Reddit in its early days.
A lot of the early adopters here are millennial and gen X folks who adopted other stuff early in the past, and they have a nostalgia for the growing pains of a new platform.
That said, you may want to check back in a few weeks when a defense for the DDOS shit has been figured out.
My hot take is that we need people to hammer certain instances. It’s uncovering performance issues that we didn’t see previously. Stress testing is good.
Also IMHO, in the future, Lemmy World’s current size will be considered very small. 100k total users and 4000 active users per day will seem quaint.
I have had very few issues. It’s probably because I’m on a less popular instance. I don’t understand why everyone piled into one instance instead of distributing the load a bit.
Whatever the reason it’s happening, it’s happening. And has been happening for weeks.
Even if a bad experience has a reason, a bad experience is a bad experience.
Growing pains from being popular. It will get sorted out. Same thing happened to Twitter and Reddit in its early days.
A lot of the early adopters here are millennial and gen X folks who adopted other stuff early in the past, and they have a nostalgia for the growing pains of a new platform.
That said, you may want to check back in a few weeks when a defense for the DDOS shit has been figured out.
If people decentralize and stop hopping on the biggest few instances, that’ll help a lot.
People can then just hang out on smaller instances and federate to other communities, and the load will be spread out a lot more.
My hot take is that we need people to hammer certain instances. It’s uncovering performance issues that we didn’t see previously. Stress testing is good.
Also IMHO, in the future, Lemmy World’s current size will be considered very small. 100k total users and 4000 active users per day will seem quaint.
I have had very few issues. It’s probably because I’m on a less popular instance. I don’t understand why everyone piled into one instance instead of distributing the load a bit.