Did they give up?
It’s up (and fast) for me rn. They have been getting DDOS’d in a way specifically targeted for sites running Lemmy. Lemmy is still beta software so hopefully this can be a growing experience for the greater Fediverse. The .world admins are some of the most capable out there.
It’s amazing how federation makes it so those of us on different instances don’t even notice when .world gets DDOS’d
Well, a lot of the communities are hosted on world. I know they make the biggest single contribution to my federation ingress. So, I mean you will kinda notice a bit of a content drought if they’re down long enough.
You aren’t wrong, but also a lot of the communities I subscribe to aren’t on .world so I still have content.
Normally a DDoS would mean I have to go find something else to do!
Yes, it’s by far a better situation that the rest of the threadiverse goes on. But, it’s definitely a large block of communities over there.
I subscribed 10 on lemmy.ml and 8 on lemmy.world.
lemmy.world is definitely the biggest instance with it’s 126k users, but lemmy.ml with 46k, lemmynsfw with 35k, hexbear with 24k and sh.itjust.works with 22k aren’t small either
Yes, lemmy.world is the biggest, but the next four biggest instances combined have just as many users.
Also the most racist, which is why I left
Can you provide an example?
You can literally just go to .world and read some of the comments in the biggest subs, and see for yourself
Too bad I’m not Canadian.
We can’t all be perfect.
Sorry
Screenshot this and attach it as a request for citizenship exception.
Canadian confirmed, eh.
Effing eh
It’s almost like you can sign up without being from Canada
But nothing would be relevant.
Well, that’s because it’s in Canada. Nothing relevant ever comes from there except Celine Dion and maple syrup.
Legit though, are you under the assumption that the instance only allows Canadian related communities? There’s all kinds of C/s on there that aren’t about Canada. And that doesn’t matter with lemmy (much) in the first place. It only matters if you exclusively want to use the local feed. Your subscriptions feed doesn’t have to be from that instance, and the all feed gives you access to anything anyone there has access to. As soon as you search for a community, the whole instance gets access to it via federation. I figure you’re joking, but just in case you weren’t, what instance you’re from doesn’t limit your feeds to a significant degree (usually).
I wasn’t joking, but I didn’t want to feel like I was intruding as a stupid American.
Canadians are Americans too.
I mean a USA American, the stereotypical jingo.
I dig that for sure!
Afaik, they don’t mind at all. I know there’s a ton of American users there as it is, so if they mind, they’re not minding out loud lol
My final decision is no. I’ll stay out of their business.
Yes, some of the bigger communities there are !pcgaming@lemmy.ca, !til@lemmy.ca, !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca, !lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca, !bicycles@lemmy.ca, !trippinthroughtime@lemmy.ca, !traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@lemmy.ca, !plex@lemmy.ca and !shittyfoodporn@lemmy.ca. And none of these are Canada-specific. I guess I have to follow !fediverselore@lemmy.ca now 😀
Man how many alts do you have ha ha. Everytime I see your username it’s a different domain
It’s the same username for each instance. Does nobody else do that?
I do the same to be honest
No … my alts always have different names. But they are for things I don’t want others to know.
Isn’t the whole point of federation that you don’t need multiple accounts or pay attention to multiple sites?
It’s working for me, posting this from lemmy.world
Same
I doubt they gave up. Probably under attack again.
I feel bad for the admins. That must be annoying AF.
I am on it right now.
However they have had some issues lately which is detailed in this post
@thecam This link struggled to load and did so incompletely.
Here is an archive.org cap someone made yesterday: https://web.archive.org/web/20230809182416/https://lemmy.world/post/2923697
Great posts. Sounds like the fascists are mad that they don’t get access to the largest instance without having to follow it’s rules.
Fascists are everywhere on that instance and they preemptively banned the leftist instance from federation. Lemmy.world is easily the most fascist friendly of the major instances
I ended up creating an alt account on lemmy.blahaj.zone because lemmy.tf was down, so now I have two accounts with the same username wirh one as a back up
It should always be the same username.
This guy Lemmys
Doesn’t blahaj.zone itself throw errors all the time?
At the time Blahaj worked and tf didnt
I know they were going to start using Cloudflare, which will handle DDOS among other things. Not sure if they have started yet.
why does lemmy world do anything?
it’s a very unstable instance. I recommend migrating away from it.
You can move your account somewhere else, but if you’re subscribed to… say… !technology@lemmy.world then even though you’re on another instance, you’d still be trying to fetch and read content from lemmy.world. If lemmy.world were to go down, then the only content you would see on that /c/ would be from other people on sh.itjust.works and never any of the comments from lemmy.ee or lemmy.ca - who would also have similar problems of isolation of comments.
Lemmy.world going down would mean that the tens of thousands of people who subscribe to /c’s hosted on there would be isolated from each other.
Moving user accounts isn’t sufficient. Moving a /c to another instance is a significant undertaking of trying to get people to do it.
So create more technology communities on different instances? We have the technology for it now.
I created this one today because we need more, and we need to spread out. If you don’t want to join lemmy.today, start a community on your own instance. But spread out.
I am on an instance that has the finer granularity of the technology topics and the corresponding subscribers to make the posts and comments interesting.
Small, general topic instances means that now I’ve got a dozen copies of the same post scattered through my feed with only a few people on each talking to each other.
Spreading out is ok… but spreading out too far makes people more isolated and content even harder to discover. Why should I subscribe to that instance rather than:
… or any of the next 20 /c that show up that have less than a dozen people subscribed.
I also don’t want to have to wade through a score of posts that Bram Moolenaar died in my feed. One or two will do (one in a general technology /c/ that I subscribe to one in !text_editors@programming.dev ).
What is the value proposition of another /c/technology on a small, general interest instance?
It’s ok to do it… but I am only subscribed to one because there’s a sufficiently large subscriber count and they’re active about moderating. If there was another techlemmy instance that was able to develop a sufficient community of people around the /c/ hosted there, I’d be interested… but subscribing to every instance that is spread out is more clutter in my subscribed section than I want to deal with.
I understand. Well we will se how it goes :)
