Hey everyone, so as I’m sure everyone is aware Lemmy.World has been experiencing several outages throughout the last few days.

We have been investigating the root cause of these outages but believe that they are related to our current hosting provider (Hetzner) blocking access from ClouldFlare as (we think) they believe that our CDN is a DDoS’er, and is causing these disconnects to our backend server, problematic for sure.

We’ve opened support tickets with our current provider and are awaiting a response. We have no issue with being as transparent as possible with downtime. Anyone that is curious, can feel free to check out https://status.lemmy.world and https://dash.lemmy.world for up to the minute outage information. We are also looking into other fediverse friendly methods of posting status and outage updates

In the meantime, we are evaluating alternative hosting options and solutions to provide a high level of reliability to you, our users. Really, we want to say thanks to everyone for soldiering through all our technical growing pains.

Cheers

  • LW Infra Team
    • gabe [he/him]
      11•1 year ago

      Next time the lemmy join page needs to be improved so people can spread and don’t try to centralize into a single instance and break the purpose of lemmy in the first place.

        • @gsa32
          10•1 year ago

          Lemmy.world itself is bigger than Squabblr and Discuit combined

        • @[email protected]
          5•1 year ago

          Squabblr and Discuit

          Discuit is a place where 4142 people get together to find cool stuff and discuss things.

          Squabblr doesn’t have a count of active users (33k registered users)

          I know we are low on the numbers, but still a bit higher than them.

    • HTTP_404_NotFoundEnglish
      9•1 year ago

      Partly due to the fact… lemmy itself, basically has no moderation or administration features at all…

      So, the only way to assist with that issue, is stricter enforcement up-front.

      Besides, if someone doesn’t wanna take the time to have a verified email, and literally type 49 when registering an application… I really don’t wanna take the time to worry about having to potentially worry about them being spammers/etc.