Ugh.
Move to a new, smaller, instance. You can still use lemmy.world as though it was still running at full speed. You can still post to lemmy.world or other federated communities and you experience won’t be so painful.
Lemmy.world is experiencing an influx of Redditors and with us good Redditors come our awful trolls. Growth, along with DDoS attacks have plagued the site since I began using it.
And if the thought of setting up another account annoys you, I’ve made a tool that will migrate your account settings, subscriptions, and blocks: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim
Now that does require the source instance to be up long enough to download your profile, but after that you can upload to any instance you want and be running like nothing changed in like 2 minutes.
Tbh, I kinda like that we have these growing pains. Helps folks leave out older expectations of monolithic profit-oriented social platforms. And actually put some money down to help host the specific niche community they really want to exist.
I’ll probably eat these words later but, as of this moment, I stand by it.
Yeah, this is the fediverse’s way of telling us to break our old habit of piling on a single site and to spread out.
Except…it’s being DDOS’d, so no, it isn’t.
If anything this is basically establishing to everyone out there that if you want to kill an instance or encourage people to move to a different one (with different admins who might have different…“styles”), just DDOS it and promote your alternative instance as a refuge.
I’m sticking with .world because the admins there are chill. Don’t feel like rolling the dice on a new instance where some power mods probably set up shop.
Isn’t https://lemmy.zip/ gaming focused?
I wish people would stop using this advice without some caveats. The instance you choose is also about the admins your choosing to have your account under.
I’ll stay on Lemmy.world because I trust the admin there. Any time you jump to a new instance, you better hope it’s run by levelheaded, fair-minded people.
You don’t have to jump to tiny < 100 user instances though, any instance within the top 10 is a good alternative to lemmy.world. If everyone thinks the same as you do, then there would be no point in federation.
It’s mostly DDOS attacks though, not the influx of normal users.
Really? As site_aggregates table getting 1500 rows updated on every single new comment and post local insert is just the tip of the iceberg of how nobody has scrutinized the PostgreSQL performance. Thank you to lemmy.ca last weekend for looking at AUTO_EXPLAIN on their data.
As site_aggregates table getting 1500 rows updated on every single new comment
Is this accurate?
Have you figured out an efficient way to mirror your community subscription list between them?
Yeah. There is little reason to sign up on the biggest server since you can see and interact with content from any of the servers.
along with DDoS attacks
Is lemmy.world getting DDoSed? Who would profit from that? (honest question. I hadn’t read this before.)
For all the annoyance, a silver lining is that lemmy.world is testing lemmy at a relatively high scale lemmy doesn’t see anywhere else and so aiding in the development of the software and architectural guidelines for instance management.
If you want a fast, stable, and we’ll funded instance, try some of the porn ones.
There is an instance centered around that actually, though I have no idea the state of it’s stability or funding. I’ve made my account on a more general content furry-themed instance and found it to be pretty well run though, don’t really have any complaints.
Can you recommend any that are good? Lemmynsfw seems to only be celebrities and it sucks.
Try pornlemmy.com
Are the porn instances not federated either? Seems like a mistake on their part
I totally agree with your outlook and made a pretty similar post to yours a couple minutes ago. My only addition would be some concern as to why it seems like attacks are causing the downtime. The attacks do encourage improvement, but why do it in the first place. I’m hoping bored enthusiasts. At least it wouldn’t be BS corporate attacks trying to eliminate competition.
Suffering from success.
Don’t worry though they’ll figure it out. The early days of Reddit were pretty unstable. Definitely sucks for now but it’ll get better
