I’m asking new joiners because I know it can be confusing at first to see issues with content discoverability, instances unavailability, people migrating accounts, etc.

  • @HonoraryMancunian
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    121 year ago

    It’s ok, except for when it’s down. I assume it’s something to do with .world

    • @AndreyAsimow
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      141 year ago

      Lemmy.world suffers from DDOS attacks for the last couple of days, hence the reason for downtimes.

        • @AndreyAsimow
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          61 year ago

          And last month as well. Just yesterday or before .world was down for sometimes.

    • @ramble81
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      101 year ago

      Yeah Sync hasn’t gone done yet, it’s been the instance which lately is lemmy.world being the target of DDoS attacks. When that happens I switch to an alternate account and things are running fine again, so it’s not Sync related.

    • Scrubbles
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      91 year ago

      Try out a smaller instance, they’ll still get .world content but will be less… Cumbersome

    • @[email protected]OP
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      81 year ago

      Good to hear! Regarding the availability, you might want to change to another instance temporarily. You can use https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim to move your subscriptions and blocked instances.

      In terms of suggestions, the choice depends on where you are located (for latency issues). Most of the regional instances (lemmy.ca, feddit.de, feddit.uk, midwest.social etc.) are usually good choices.

      For generalist instances, Lemm.ee, reddthat.com and sh.itjusts.works are usually solid choices

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Sign up for another instance that federates with .world.

      I had the same issue you did so I signed up on another instance I liked and now I can browse even when .world is down.