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The sub was closed as part of the protests.

Edit: this news has developed, the new mod deleted their account and the post. I didn’t get a screenshot of the original post, but if anyone supplies one I’ll link it here.

    • @[email protected]English
      8•1 year ago

      While I sympathize with the issues you are mentioning, they are localized issues. I‘m on !discuss.tchncs.de (I hope I spelled it right). I‘m somewhat of an addict and have 3-4 hrs a day on lemmy (before it was reddit) and I mod communities on both.

      Tchncs has not once been down since I joined a month ago. I too cant comment on certain posts but that is a memmy issue, not a lemmy issue (I commented on this and opened a github issue to which I got the reply that the devs are looking into it and might have a fix that should be pushed in the next release or so).

      If you‘re seeing tons of nsfw posts I would suggest two things: either change instance since yours seems to be down all the time as well. Second, you might want to change your feed to subscribed once you curated it and only occasionally look into new.

      Summary (opinion): Lemmy is not a for profit project and therefore not prioritize maximum polish. Those who code will understand how to make it better (request features and report issues). Those who are not as tech savvy will run into occasional issues which are mostly based on the instance or the client, which is not lemmy.

      TL;DR: Lemmy is awesome, most problems are either instance based or client based. Don’t ask for „for-profit-polish“ or you might get it one day. Instead help by coding, hosting, moderating, posting or donating.

      Have a good one.

    • @PoopingCoughEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      The uptime issues you are seeing is mostly due to the fact that you are on lemmy.world, which is now by far the largest lemmy instance in terms of userbase. That means it experiences heavy loads which can cause interruptions plus it’s been the target of DDoS attacks for like the past month or so. If you switched to a different instance you wouldn’t see nearly as much of those issues.

            • @[email protected]
              6•1 year ago

              Where did I gatekeep? I meant if you do not enjoy your experience here then maybe go somewhere else? because personally, I do enjoy my experience here and have not encountered these things that you are saying.

              BTW there’s a NSFW toggle on the settings and also before you registered, the very first checkmark asks you if you want to see NSFW. so your comments about porn is literally your own doing by not reading the things you are ticking in your browser.

        • @PoopingCoughEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          the most popular version is the most buggy.

          It isn’t buggy, it’s overloaded and under attack. You missed my point.

          it’s not ready.

          Agree to disagree then I guess. Lemmy.world being the instance with the most users doesn’t mean that’s where new people will look to sign up. In fact, if you go to join-lemmy.org it isn’t even listed in the recommended instances. You seem to kind of misunderstand the point of the fediverse; it isn’t to have everyone congregate under one server but instead spread users and content across many instances so that if one does have some downtime, you’ll barely notice.

          In fact, I think that the most popular instance having a lot of downtime recently is actually a very good thing, because it means people will create and use different instances than lemmy.world, naturally leading to more decentralization (the whole point of the fediverse).

            • @PoopingCoughEnglish
              2•1 year ago

              Let me reframe for a sec. Back when Digg imploded itself in 2010, basically all of their users migrated to reddit. With the influx of new users, reddit was constantly overloaded, there were frequent outages, and other problems that eventually lead to memes about reddit’s unreliability and eventually the introduction of reddit gold. Gold was introduced literally because users of reddit liked the platform and wanted to help contribute to it being better able to handle more traffic. But from the Digg migration to the current period of high uptime took literal years. Does that mean reddit “wasn’t ready to be migrated to”? It sounds like you would say yes, because to you “ready” just means “can handle the traffic”. Whereas to me and other people at the time it meant the feature set, content, communities etc all came together to keep people on reddit despite the downtime. The same is now true for Lemmy for many of us.

              “It’s your fault for using the popular instance!”

              Think about that for a second would you?

              This is why I said it feels like you’re not understanding the fediverse. An instance being popular doesn’t make it better than other instances. You’ll get the same content from being on any number of other less popular instances. That’s the whole point of federation. So yes, it is, in fact, your fault for using the popular instance. In the time it took to reply to me one time you could have made accounts in 3 other instances and solved the problem you keep complaining about.