Plot twist: it’s the lemmy.ml team doing the ddos’ing
I mean they did say the attackers had intimate knowledge of Lemmy so…
That is not saying anything, the full documentation and source code is public for everyone to read.
Time to point fingers (at other instances)!!!1
I think those programming.dev guy’s did it \s
Hum, nah, they are nice folks looks around
Yeah, it was actually me that did it
Umm no…
dies to death
WE NEED TO FIGHT
who is doing the ddosing is prime material for conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theorists are doing the ddosing
“Can’t have a problem if I’m the problem”
points to head
Lemmy.world is ddosing themselves to make them look like a victim so that people will flock to their instance in support
no i’m not
It’s all a LARP!
It’s obviously funded by spez
Ugh. For five peaceful seconds I’d forgotten about that ungainly rat.
It’s like the game but with Spez
Screw you, I forgot about the game.
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100% agree. I’m yet to notice programming.dev go down which makes sense when you consider the target demographic and that the admins probably fit right into it.
I feel so safe here lol
Once I made my non-world account here, Lemmy is like a whole new rock solid experience!
Combined with the choice in apps, even though they’re still evolving, it’s great.
Yeah, it’s incredible how your choice of instance can give you a completely different experience (in terms of stability). Still, you can sub to any community you want, so your instance is irrelevant, unless it’s defederated from a server you like.
Yeah, I think there’s a sweet spot in using a mid sized instance such as this. It’s big enough to have a bunch of users hitting communities all over the fediverse, and to have some resources dedicated to the server, but small enough to have its own identity and not be a target.
The magic happens because of how your home instance caches communities from other instances. So your experience depends on the reliability of the instance you’re using, but not so much the reliability of other instances(within reason).
I love how this is now similar to when people would have usernames relevant to the conversation in Reddit.
Now, y’all just swoop in with the relevant instance 😂
If you think lemmy.ml is full of tankies, you should check out https://lemmygrad.ml and https://hexbear.net. They are a hundred times worse
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I hope mine, lemm.ee, defederates from those instances too
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I back this, as a sh.ithead
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it just works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just an anecdote, but I’ve been waiting for (I think) close to 36 hours for the email verification to complete my sign-up there. Since there’s no way to resend it, I’ve been stuck in sign-up limbo.
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I’ve tried creating two accounts with the same issue. One with a Gmail address and one with a Fastmail account. Neither has received a verification email. I’ve checked the spam folders on both too.
Hello from my new account at sh.itjust.works. I just created this, you can check my profile. I used a temp email: temp-mail[dot]org
After you sign up, you can change the email to some random invalid email so your account is safe from getting hijacked via password reset through email. Changing email doesn’t require re-verification as far as I can tell.
Perhaps your IP got flagged for some reason. Are you using a VPN or Tor? Those may trigger some spam filters. Is your network a public one? (Eg: University, Hospital, Workplace, etc.)
That’s really weird. I’ve been staying at a hotel the last few days and maybe the IP is flagged for some reason, like you said. Well, I guess those two handles are just lost then.
I actually migrated to lemmy.ca, eh, since lemmy.world is down half the fucking time. I have enemies to destroy, and I don’t got time for that shit.
Lemmy.ca is the superior instance and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
is it canada or california based? or is it neither and just the domain they happened to pick?
The .ca domain is Canadian.
Canada
Are those enemies the Lemmy.world servers?
Would be great if people spread out a bit.
Not a competition.
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Only competition should be Reddit not other instances
Use small instances. I’ve never had trouble on lemdro.id.
How do I even find other instances? Not trying to sound like a turd, I just legitimately haven’t looked into it at all yet
You could use lemmyverse.net to look what instances and communities there are
I think it usually just involves look around the comment sections. People are like “I’m on this instance, it’s good blah blah blah.”
In my case though I chose lemdro.id because it’s an instance that centers around a topic I’m interested in.
At the bottom of every Lemmy page, there is a link in the footer that says “instances”. It lists every instances currently federating with this server. Just look at the list and pick something that catch your eye. Note that it lists not just Lemmy instances, but also kbin, mastodon, etc.
The awesome instance list has pretty useful information on instances. You can find it on GitHub.
If lemmy.ml is accepting signups I heartily recommend it.
Or make your own
This is the way.
Don’t join big instances. There should be no main instance. Join small instances. Spread the load
That’s what she said
Meanwhile me on lemmy.zip -
grabs popcorn
I truly dislike .zip domain names tho
Are they too compressed for you? ;)
How’s anisocial
I want good anime subs to join but I can’t find any through search…
Any general sub that’s got good interaction?
Is it due to the scammy potential uses of the domain?
Yeah, I truly don’t understand how it became a top domain
lemmy.sdf.org is a nice instance.
Kbin.social has been incredibly solid recently
I’m a big fan, just wish it didn’t block so much nsfw stuff
I feel like it’s been pretty solid the whole time.
First couple weeks were pretty rough, but it’s been real smooth sailing since that all got smoothed out
Yeah I almost claimed the whole time too, but that felt like I’d be lying by omitting those early days.
because we don’t have a fascist tankie at the helm 😎
Please don’t play into Enlightened Centrist horseshoe theory crap by pretending that the idiots of both extremes are identical… While it has some superficial things in common with Stalin style tankiness, fascism is 100% a right wing ideology.
shh don’t jinx it
Lmao
we just took a nap
It’ll be back eventually, bigger and stronger than before 💪
Ah yes, so they have another large instance to ddos
Use smaller instances like lemmy.zip or lemm.ee. You know, the entire point of decentralization.
lemm.ee is larger than lemmy.ml by active users monthly, as such it’s already the second largest instance. Don’t let the “total users” number confuse you: lemmy.ml is ancient and is bound to have many inactive accounts.
Wow, didn’t know that. Makes sense why I see so many lemm.ee users then
Ig it shouldn’t be recommended as a smaller instance then
It’ll be back eventually, bigger and stronger than before 💪
