• edric@lemm.ee
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    I’m actually seeing more and more .world users getting pissed as the downtimes become more frequent now.

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        I mean that is the problem of too many people being on that one instance.

        From what I understand, capacity isn’t the issue, it’s that they’re being repeatedly DDoS’ed

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          Technically, a DDoS can happen naturally if enough people are trying to use it at the same time. I’ve seen it happen to other, larger websites before. And lemmy.world definitely doesn’t have the infrastructure of some of those larger websites.

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        I really blame Sync for defaulting to lemmy.world, imo lemmy.world should close to new registrations, at least while they’re figuring things out.

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          Yup, no biggie. Will use .world when it’s working and the other when it’s not.

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      I just did the move. Tired of having the website offline and no info. Will delete the account soon

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        have half dozen various types. no need to delete. fedi-wide accounts are still a wish. name them the same and carry on. can set a redirect on mastodon. not sure lemmy

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    IF you want to switch to an alternative instance use the tool Lasim to synchronize your accounts: synchronize subscriptions, settings and/or blocks. Tool is available for Windows, Linux and MacOs.

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      Do you know of a way for those of us only on mobile to move subs over?

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      Ah yes, let’s forever create new accounts on new instances as they all get bogged down. Solid solution.

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            Okay, granted, but only using the term “bogged down” adds to the misconception that the problem is too many accounts on the server. It should be clarified that it comes from a deliberate outside source.

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            It’s my solution for myself, and I imagine a lot of folk on lemmy today are technically inclined enough that it’s not an outlandish recommendation.

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              The technical ability of current users doesn’t reflect the hopeful demographic of “everybody”. That’s a good solution for those that have the ability, and shouldn’t be the “go-to” solution for everyone.

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      I made an account on sdf.org because I got tired of lemmy.world’s servers going down. But I found out that SDF’s servers often go down, too…

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      Join mine! I run several tools in order to federate with the most popular content automatically. I’m keeping user count limited, but sign ups are open at the moment.

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      I tried lemm.ee and it’s cool but I see so many hexbear posts on the All tab from like any of their communities spewing hate and it’s frustrating to scroll past

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        I believe there is a way to block instances, I don’t know if it blocks comments but i believe it would block the posts

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      Thats what I do. It’s a strength of the fediverse, and most of the apps handle account swapping pretty seamlessly.

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        What apps do you recommend for swapping instances?

        I have tried Jerboa and Connect. Both allow me to swap accounts from the main menu, but I am brought back to me default start view and not the community/thread I was looking at.

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          I really like Liftoff for this. You can choose instances on the fly while posting, searching, or reading comments without losing your spot.

          It’s really nice.

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          My instance has it. It’s local communities are focused on a specific niche (books & writing) so it might not be your cup of tea though. But basically when setting it up you specify which instances it pulls from, how often it pulls and how many communities it can pull at a time. You can filter specific communities and instances, and it’ll automatically ignore instances you’ve already defederated from. By default it pulls the top /all posts from the instances you specify. Mine pulls from a couple big instances and smaller niche instances as well every day around noon to get a solid diverse amount of content. You can also auto disable NSFW communities from populating as well. It’s basically the equivalent of telling the bot to go to the front page of each instance, seeing the top posts of the day and pulling from each community that’s there to check if it’s federated into your instance or not and if it isn’t itll pull it in for you.

          With the way lemmy functions if a problematic community starts hitting /all an instance admin can just remove the community and it won’t federate into the instance anymore. Ideally there would be more granular federation options in the future, but with the things that the seeding bot does now it works pretty well.

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              Some of it is also federating content in, you don’t need an admin to do so for you. If you have a link to a different instances community, just pasting it into the search bar of your local instance will federate the community into your instance for you. Go to lemmyverse.net and find a community and its link then past it into the search of your local lemmy instance

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      Interesting, thanks for sharing. Is that info publicly available?

      LW is currently down (for me, at least) and I’m curious if it tends to happen at the same time every day.

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        From the sidebar of the main page of lemmy.world, so :

        That 76% was 2 hours ago, now at 74%

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            Sorry about the troll. Here’s a serious answer: LM actually stands for laborious meandering.

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              Yes lol well, this is my hobby.
              I find radio and TV mostly boring.
              Here we have many nice people, liberty of speech and very low social pressure.
              Lemmy is Fun 😄

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            indeed Snowden is a real hero !
            thanks for your kind comments 😋 !
            Please notice the edit of my previous comment answering your question.

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    I never gave reddit 1c and blocked all ads. I donate to lemmy.world.

    I have zero anger when lemmy is down, I despised reddit, especially towards the end.

    I really wish more people would donate to lemmy I think it’s totally fair to pay for someone to manage and help with running the site.

    It’s hard to just say “volunteer”… Even if people volunteer and we can only afford to send 50% of their fee their way it’s still something…

    If we want lemmy to thrive without ads we have to all pitch in. Just give 2$/ month… If we all did that we’d be able to hire people full time…

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    The funny thing is that Reddit with its big teams and infrastructure was also sluggish and going down a lot this week and we keep forgetting that. No excuses for Reddit.

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    Same reason I am here. I had two small communities for my interests there, but it was down so often that I decided to move here AND move my communities. This place seems a lot more stable. That’s really the downside of huge servers on lemmy IMO. If communities centralize on one server, whenever that one server is down, so are the communities for everyone.

    I would totally run my own server but I’m not tech enough. I have spare hardware, and I have a 1GB fiber connection, but I am not a network security expert, so I am afraid my home IP address would be targeted and disrupt my house Internet in general. Even if I don’t allow others to create account or communities on my server, I still feel like it’s a risk for me because I am not skilled enough to deal with threats.

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      How do you move a community, start fresh?

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        Yes. Both were only a few months old and I was the only one posting in them anyway, so I just started going back through all the links and posting them here. I’m sure there will be tools for automating it down the road, without it spamming the local feeds of the server it’s moving to, but right now I know of no such application or feature.

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    I switched to lemm.ee, it’s much more stable since it’s not constantly being attacked by script kiddies. I have a theory a user got banned, and is making it their personal mission to ruin .world’s performance. Please donate to your home instance owner(s) if they have that set up. Even if it’s just a little, it can make everyone’s experience better.

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    Not having just an account on .world is a necessity since it’s the favorite target of attacks (at least, I’m assuming that’s why it’s down so much).