• CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works
      628·
      1 year ago

      We have a uptime thats beyond reasonable, there were some smaller problems some days ago, but they just made things a little slower.

      And Lemmyml is full of tankies.

      There are however many other instances as well, being on many small ones eases the burden for all and makes single point of failure problems less likely.

      • JDubbleu
        26·
        1 year ago

        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.

          • Zink
            41·
            1 year ago

            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.

            • victronEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              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.

              • Zink
                2·
                1 year ago

                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).

          • ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            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 😂

        • static_motion
          1·
          1 year ago

          Which was part of my reasoning for joining there, along with the fact that I’m a dev myself so it aligns with my interests.

    • 16bitvoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

        • 16bitvoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • sh.itdoesnt.work@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            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.)

            • 16bitvoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              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.

  • OtakuAltair@lemm.eeEnglish
    68·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • muhyb
      411·
      1 year ago

      It’s not just about users though, we need to separate communities as well. There are so many communities on lemmy.world currently.

      • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf
        151·
        1 year ago

        This. I feel like world isn’t prioritizing the health of the entirety of Lemmy by not closing community creation.

        • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
          111·
          1 year ago

          Isn’t that up to the creators though. If world is their home instance, why would they create elsewhere? Not being able to create communities would kind of defeat the purpose.

          If creators want engagement, they will create on subs with more uptime. That will likely be world in the future, when hardened. The ddos attacks aren’t good for Lemmy now, but it should iron out some wrinkles in the long run for all instances. I think the world admins are doing a great job, both technically and communication wise.

          • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf
            5·
            1 year ago

            I think you put too much stock into the ddos explanation. I’m not saying it’s not a thing, but there are bigger issues that it seems won’t be resolved before Lemmy 1.0

            Regarding your first question, tf is my home but I have created communities on different instances. Some instances because the community fits the instance, some because I like the URL. I figure it’s best to decentralise as much as possible.

            As to your last point, I think some of what the admins at world have done is tremendous and I celebrate their commitment to world, but there’s limitations to the software, as they well know and ultimately this is a decentralised platform of which loads of little instances are supposed to make up the larger whole.

            • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyz
              2·
              1 year ago

              I kind of expected some people to start instances for mostly just making accounts (some of which I have seen), and for other people to make instances just for community hosting and disallow account creation (and afaik this hasn’t been done to any appreciable degree). I’m not sure this is even possible or functionally useful with the way lemmy currently works for community creation and stuff, so maybe that’s why it didn’t happen.

              Honestly I even expected some instances to pop up with the sole intent and purpose of serving one community, but even stuff like the startrek instance have account creation available.

              Maybe it’s because lemmy is so new for people. Niche instances would rather host accounts than scare users away in an effort to get them to sign up elsewhere.

                • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyz
                  3·
                  1 year ago

                  Well that would explain why there isn’t a general use community only instance. Honestly that feels like a feature that should exist, while still leaving “local only” as an instance setting for people who like it that way.

                  Still seems odd for instances with a specific set of premade communities with new ones disabled to worry about hosting accounts, like the startrek one.

              • Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.netEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                People are looking for an easy access server for lemmy, they search for it and because of SEO the most popular servers are the ones they see.

      • zephyreks@lemmy.ca
        5·
        1 year ago

        Lemmy needs a refpost system where you can choose to post articles to different instances that link together.

        You then can get all the benefits of centralization without necessarily being centralized.

    • radix@lemm.ee
      9·
      1 year ago

      How long will it take, do you think, for lemm.ee to become one of the bigger instances? I keep seeing people mention it, and that’s why I’m here.

      • eldain@feddit.nl
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’m guessing all the shitposts that don’t load on 196@blahaj for me are from users on overloaded instances, because when I post there, the image is uploaded to my home instance and referenced in that post on the ‘foreign’ instance. Plenty of error placeholders there lately. Concerning your question: I think a community gets delayed into your feed if its server federates slowly or not at all until it is up again. I see sudden post batches appear in my feed sometimes and unseen posts from hours ago.

      • Alto@kbin.social
        4·
        1 year ago

        First couple weeks were pretty rough, but it’s been real smooth sailing since that all got smoothed out

        • atocci@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yeah I almost claimed the whole time too, but that felt like I’d be lying by omitting those early days.

        • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf
          118·
          1 year ago

          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.