Why do the instances keep going down? It makes me think that this is not a reliable social network, but the alternatives are not as good.
You’re thinking about it the wrong way. Despite a major hub of lemmy being down if you have an account on another instance you can continue using the network nearly as though nothing had happened. Individual instances may have greater or lesser reliability but the social network is very robust.
Sadly there are a lot of DDOS attacks happening towards all the major instances. I believe the Lemmy devs are working on ways to negate this with upcoming updates but it is a continuing issue.
Lemmy is still alpha software, thrust into the limelight by the fall of Reddit. It is still in its infancy. Reddit has had over 18 years to get it right. So it will take some time.
I didn’t think of it that way.
I’m talking out of my ass, but software devs rarely think about scalability, backup, and high availability.
How many software devs do you actually know lmao
The Lemmy.world server runs on a 16mhz 386dx and has 16mb of ram. It just does that sometimes.
