When you notice Lemmy is quieter than usual, then have a look at the Lemmy.world status

Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to Fediverse@lemmy.world – 821 points –

Seems like they are under attack again, will those people never stop? I feel sorry for the admin team.

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Myself and another developer are working on something we think will solve this:

OP: https://lemm.ee/post/2800726 TLDR: Automatic User Distribution

Whenever someone goes to the sign up page, for example, on Lemmy.world, we:

  • look at the recommender list
  • find the server that is most under capacity
  • have a very large iframe with "Sign up for Lemmy (using [under capacity server here])"
  • have a small "No, I want to sign up specifically on Lemmy.world" option

Would also be cool to have like a short questionnaire, like picking your class in Morrowind, but instead you end up on a German industrial metal music instance.

Does it take into account instance rules like language, moderation, or whether it's a personal instance hosted on a raspi that may go down at any moment?

Yes! Lemmy.world (or any other big server) must manually add the-other-server to their "recommder" list. So the-other-server has to prove to Lemmy.world that they're going to offer similar reliability.

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