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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This is why we need users to spread to more servers and create communities in them. If lemmy.world goes down that shouldn't result in half of lemmyhub disappearing.

Yes! I tried with a niche topic like fallout but can’t get people to move over from the Lemmy world community.

was there already a fallout community on lemmy.world?

Yeah. Very inactive so I shouldn’t be surprised no one came to mine on sopuli.xyz

Right.. I guess for me I'm not sure it's all that productive to start multiple communities on the same topic? I dunno, maybe it's good. If I'm looking for something specific, like, say turntables, and I search lemmy for a turntable community, I'm not sure it'd be a good thing to find 3-4 different lemmy communities on the topic. Perhaps I'm just thinking in older, outdated, reddit kind of thinking though.

Yeah I get it. My goal was since the Lemmy world community was pretty inactive if I can post more to encourage activity on mine I can make mine more active and the defacto community which helps get people off of Lemmy world.

If it were a community that is highly active on Lemmy world then I understand it doesn’t seem productive to re create active communities.

I have heard other people voice opinions that having multiple of the same communities over different instances is a good thing with how Lemmy works. I do wish we had a federated community so as people make more communities on different instances it more merges them into one so if one instance goes down the others are still keeping the community alive. But idk if that’s possible or on the Lemmy roadmap.

Did you advertise it on the New Communities community?

I did not. Forgot about that.

Also strange is that Lemmy never notified me of your message. Haven’t had that happen before I don’t think.

I’m more of a commenter and less of a poster, but I moved away from world as my primary instance last week. Part to spread the load, part to just be able to browse.

Commenting on your comment not because I expect you to have them or anything, it's just the top comment so hopefully someone sees this. I know there's a handful of links out there to browse instances. Are there any that can see who's defederated with who/ which instances are federated with the most instances? I had another account on a .ml domain instance but they got purged with a bunch of others a couple of weeks ago. I use my lemmy.world account because it has the most-ish reach for finding new communities and whatnot

Currently no, there isn't a way to see that granular of detail. On my instance I have details about any defederated (blocked) instances. Currently there are none.

But there are pros and cons of joining smaller server. Since mine is small we don't see a large list of communities, I make a point to go through and subscribe to a bunch everyday so my users can get the best experience. But without others doing some of the leg work it can be challenging. Bigger instances like lemmy.world have "seeded" with communities all over because of their large user base. Not only does lemmy.world have a ton of communities but their users have subscribed to communities outside the instance making it discoverable to others.

https://lemmyverse.net/ https://browse.feddit.de/

Unless you want to see porn or troll instances, I don't think there's a big difference between instances except for the fact that beehaw isn't federated with lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works

Glad I'm realizing this before getting too attached to any one account. Setting up on a few instances now.

Getting attached to any account is not recommended. Hopefully most are pretty set but I know personally if I was too run into financial trouble I would shut it down. Bigger instances do get some amount of patrons who donate to them.

And it's back up again! Kudos to the team!

Down again it seems. People seriously need to switch away from lemmy.world. Every single time it goes down so much content goes down with it. It's annoying.

I did this early on after realizing my mistake, promptly moved to vlemmy.net which after a couple weeks went totally mia.

Moved again... It's a toss-up though. I want an instance big enough to stay updated, and have an active community, but not turn into .world or vlemmy.

You should be safe on infosec.pub, jerry is a great admin

Here's to hoping!! I also worked with infosec group at my previous employer a lot and really grew to appreciate that field so I felt like a good fit !

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I recommend people move away from Lemmy.world. Having ~28% of Lemmy users on a single instance is not good for the health of Lemmy overall.

For those that want to move to a different instance, here is a link to Lemmy instances sorted by user count: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

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We're not allowed to have nice things.

Thankfully, other instances are still up and allow us to talk about it.

Back in the days, when Reddit or Twitter were down, it was down for the whole userbase.

how? I just use Sync for Lemmy and it seems like everything is down when lemmy.world is. I don't really know how Lemmy works, or where different things I subscribe to are based.

Your account is on lemmy.world, so it fails to get any and all data. Accounts on other instances can interact with historic data.

You have to think of lemmy.world as your lemmy provider. Just like with e-mail you have your own email provider from the ISP, or gmail, or ... If your own provider is down, you can't receive or send mails, but all other people can send mails to each other. It's the same with lemmy, but then for reading posts and send comments to that instance/provider.

Those guys can't catch a break. By whom or why are they getting attacked anyway?

Probably by some ground against the Fediverse or lemmy specifically.

This single post :
https://lemmy.world/post/2874044
https://lemmy.ca/post/2904207
...has a comment from an hexbear user who thinks this is very funny. (hidden from here because we defederated them)

You're saying hexbear users are responsible?

We sustained an attack right after their defederation, I have no proof now, maybe time will tell.

Gotta love a good baseless claim.

Not a claim, an hypotesis.
Could also be wrongful intervention from Reddit interests. Could be both and some more.
"Gotta love" the scientific method !

First we had redditors calling Lemmy a communist plot. Now we have the biggest instance run by paranoids seeing commie plots everywhere.

My suggestion: stop using lemmydotworld, spread the load, stop being a clown.

It could have been beehaw? I mean, I have exactly the same amount of proofthat you have.

Being the biggest instance and having defederated with a couple of instances has made us a target.

This is a quote from L.W.AdmiS' post :
Lemmy World outages

At the time I made my first comment in here, there was no word from any admin, so, I had that (hypothesis //hunch //educated_guess) whatever you may call it. And then I wrote : "time will tell". Well, I had the confirmation I needed for that L.W.Admin.

Finally, if you need some more information, you may search it by yourself - - I have nothing more to say.

~I really hope world can stay alive, they are in danger of completely undoing all of the work lemmy has done to get users. if they take world offline, that will create FUD that proves no point and gets people off lemmy saying "wow, I have nothing to show for my time, im going back to a stable site, maybe Reddit is the only safe place for content."~

thats not communism, thats red painted bullshit. please DO ~defederate from whatever the hell that is.~ remove trolls using false flags.

::: spoiler my idiot self's old comment within these people are a sort of poison, one that entrenches them in their symbols and attack others with pride, like an idiot. the (alt? and regular?) right uses these losers and their corrupted ideas and flag clutching as ammunition (for example, against Trans folk).

Edit: I was using a hammer when i nedded a scalpel. Generally dont like my rant written in anger. To be clear, Waving a communist or trans flag and then being a narcisist in public. It is either a false flag or an idiot. Result is a useful addition to a news media's hyperreality.

Edit: i am REALLY unhappy with this comment, i fail by leaving whats implied unsaid. A natural observer given a big name like CNN saying things is always at risk of treeting the whole movement like a tom and jarry cartoon. Antifa usually gets a bad reputation, is it warrented? I dont know because the news is designed to let you make short and usually wrong assumptions. One commenter was right, you fight the news by looking out the window and seeing the negbors arent loonitics and in fact rather lovely. :::

Edit: i am still REALLY unhappy with this comment, also spelling I cant really speak on these issues as I need guidance more than answers. I have been told to not worry about the propaganda machine (my old and current psychological trap) and to rather be free of it and to free others by showing them a better place. I was merely dragging people into the machine I sought to destroy. for this I am sorry.

the (alt? and regular?) right uses these losers and their corrupted ideas and flag clutching as ammunition (for example, against Trans folk).

The local org that helps connect trans people with resources like housing and medical care is mostly made up of and run by ML’s. The idea that fascists would be kinder to trans people if ML’s stopped existing is ahistorical nonsense.

I retract my old comment and want to fix it, im unhappy with it

Man hexbear is such a shit show. When chapotraphouse was a sub I was on there near 24/7 for like 2 years, and it was the best online experience I've ever had. Then they migrated over to hexbear and it's like only the worst, most self righteous people from the community moved over. I'm literally the most left person I personally know by a wide margin, and I got called a reactionary and told to kill myself and then a mod agreed with them and banned me for a week over a blatantly pro trans comment that apparently wasn't pro trans in the right way. Like it literally said "trans people should be able to do whatever the fuck they want with their body, I don't care, it doesn't effect me" and like 5 people were like "you 'don't care' about trans people? Do the world a favor and fucking kill yourself, you're literally butchering trans comrades with your comment"

It literally kills me when people say literally when they mean figuratively.

Multiple dictionaries define literally as figuratively, language changes

Would be pretty sick if they effected us. Like a trans person comes around the corner and suddenly fireworks go off and glowsticks get handed out

I mean if you're uu hang aorund at a pride parade these are very really things that might happen.

I'll be sure to start doing that.

Man, I'm happy I'm not the only one who feels like this. I had such a good time in the chapotraphouse sub and never forgave reddit for banning it. None of the offspring from there could really capture what made this sub special, the hexbear thing certainly can't.

Like it literally said “trans people should be able to do whatever the fuck they want with their body, I don’t care, it doesn’t effect me” and like 5 people were like “you ‘don’t care’ about trans people?

This is why I keep quiet on issues like that, someone will always say you are wrong for not having their exact opinion and wording. Had a similar thing when I said a 5 year old boy can wear a dress without being a girl, just let them do what they want.

A lot of it is contextual.

Sometimes, it’s based on larger patterns of subtle behaviors that wouldn’t be indicative of a problem on their own.

Sometimes, people are doing harmful things by accident because they grew up in a culture where those shitty things are normalized.

Sometimes, people are doing things which would not be harmful on their own, but are associated with negative experiences that are only common for the minority group.

Sometimes, people who have a long history of being timid have gotten fed up with putting themselves down for others’ comfort, so their pendulum swings the other way and we only see the tail end of that.

And yeah, sometimes it’s someone who’s immature or aggressive for unrelated reasons and isn’t thinking super hard about what they’re doing beyond finding a weakness and attacking it. Social media design makes this worse. I think situations where that’s all it is are less common than we think, though.

There’s also often ingroup/outgroup dynamics at play. And what makes it worse is that people who exist outside of the grey area of acceptable behavior, people who are just genuinely cruel, will do something cruel and then retreat and act like they belong in the grey area. They learn the ways that they act when people are genuinely uninformed or confused or curious and they copy them, all the while refusing to back down from the shitty thing they did. It’s kind of a charade put on for onlookers to make the victim look like the aggressor.

For the specific issue you mentioned, the good faith interpretation is that, yes, boys can wear dresses. If that’s the end of it, that’s fine. But “wearing a dress doesn’t make you a girl” is also a common phrase used both by malicious transphobes and by misguided loved ones trying to talk their kids out of being trans. There are many reasons that discussions like these are so hard to get the phrasing’s right on is that we don’t have established social norms to make them easy. The established social norms, in fact, make them actively more difficult. And people are doing gender exploration in a matter of months that would have been spread out over years of their childhood if they’d been allowed to do so. It’s just a lot.

I genuinely hear your frustration. I hope you hear mine. Learning all of this has been a painful process and I hope we can see it get easier in the near future.

I saw a comment that mentioned there was a user that was creating tons of communities and squatting on them. That user was called out and banned and they might be behind it. But its all rumours. Does anyone have more details on this rumour?

Probably by some group against the Fediverse or lemmy specifically.

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It's been this way for weeks, actually. I haven't seen a graph of the uptime, but I'm sure one would look extremely ugly, based on my own user experience.

This right here is an alt, and despite the fact that I don't prefer to comment from it, since I won't necessarily check in soon to see replies, it's seeing some heavy use.

The attacks a few weeks ago weren't a one-off, they never stopped. It seems down maybe half the time or so?

One of the many ways we (all of Lemmy) are not quite ready for the mainstream yet, we still have basic technical/security issues to resolve. Soon, though.

96.4 uptime

Isn't it 88 based on their own status page? https://lemmy-status.org/endpoints/_lemmy-world

If either of those figures is actually accurate from an end-user standpoint, then the entire downtime must be coming during my primary periods of usage.

As you're probably based in Canada, that might be it. I'm in Europe and usually their downtime happens during our nights

Both are quite high (ex. 88% is 43 days a year, ~3hrs daily rounded up)

What does not kill you, makes you stronger. The only thing these script kiddies are doing is strength training the world admins.

It was always going to happen but an instance being the defacto default for Lemmy is a bad thing.

There really needs to be a tool to help people pick an instance, but even then people would just flock to the general instances like .world anyway

I also think instances just need to have more sane urls. It sounds silly but like it or not branding does matter. Instances like beehaw and sh.itjust.works just rub me the wrong way during first impressions. Even some of my friends who I've tried to introduce to Lemmy are just like..."what the fuck kinda website are you making me go to?" I am not surprised that lemmy.world is big, partly because the URL actually sounds official.

We also need super-communities that pull in content from multiple communities/instances, better multi-instance search, and a way to migrate between instances before the masses will be okay with smaller instances.

Views that show you multiple communities would be great. Let me see both major Steam Deck communities in one view.

beehaw and sh.itjust.works just rub me the wrong way during first impressions

They're pretty descriptive: do you want a place to "behave", or would you rather fling shit at each other?

This isn't Reddit, you get to pick your experience. Can even sign up to more than one instance, each with different rules!

We also need super-communities that pull in content from multiple communities/instances

Apps do that, including some web app.

Search and migrations could be improved, though.

Apps do that, including some web app.

I don't just mean grouping communities client side though. I mean super-communities that a mod or admin can curate and that other people can share and subscribe to. Out of curiosity, which apps have you been using that have this feature?

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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It makes sense that general purpose instances would have the most users. I'm not a programmer so while I could still register there why would I pick programmer.dev?

The bigger issue I had in picking an instance was just in understanding the differences. I think it would help if instances advertised their stance on defederation, moderation, etc... to help people make a decision (or even to see that lemmy.world may be more similar to some other instances than they might think).

multiple accounts, one macro, one micro, works wonders. i like my lemm.ee account more but lemmy.world was my gateway as it was the one advertised to me

I already do have multiple accounts, but I usually don't use the others because I worry that I'm going to accidentally upvote things twice. Would be nice if Lemmy had a feature to exclude duplicate votes from your other accounts.

The more lemmy.world is down the more I use my alt instance. We'll adapt.

yeah it's lame but it's more harmful for the hackers in how much time they are wasting. not that their time is worth much apparently

Please, these aren't hackers they script kiddies incels.

I'm not going to pretend to understand the technical details, but would it make more sense if Instances were treated more like subreddits? So instead of the main Lemmy.world instance, we'd have gaming.world, news.world, nsfw.world, woodworking.world, and so on. So then things would be distributed more evenly across the fediverse and it would be harder for a single for a DDOS attack to take out the entire system all at once? Or does the architecture of the whole thing not make any sense doing it like that? Would each instance then have to setup their own server or something to make it work?

I guess the community names could be subdomains, the default config would pass all the subdomains to the same Lemmy process. But this would make it easier to split things up down the road, and you could move some of those sub domains to different servers entirely.

Not sure if it's worth rearchitecting things like this now, probably better to just close signups and disallow creating new communities on overloaded instances like lemmy.world

Each instance is it's own server, then it has many communities which are created by users. Ideally we spread the communities across instances, but unfortunately most of the big communities are clustered on the big instances, because finding communities on small instances is hard.

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Its really unfortunate. Im working on setting up my own personal instance right now. Im really grateful for all the work Lemmy.world has done, but im just getting tired of not being able to use Lemmy maybe 1/8th of the time I open the app.

Just a +1 for decentralized social media. The fact that I can just set up my own instance when im not 100% happy with the one im currently on is awesome.

Right, and thats the issue. I host an instance but we only have a few users. Our instance does run very very well though because we don't get a ton of user traffic.

lemmy.world has been so unstable for that I decided to switch to another instance. That's the beauty of the Fediverse though.
I setup my own Uptime Kuma Monitor for lemmy.world just for fun.. the statistics are crazy

Oof that's brutal. Didn't realize it was that bad.

There's a lot of small instances wanting to become medium/big instances and share the load, but people need to show a bit of initiative and join them. I just made this account, and here's a list of a few other small servers with room to spare. YMMV but these all look pretty solid at a glance.

discuss.online

lemmy.fmhy.net

lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz

lemmy.tf

thelemmy.club

lemmy.myserv.one

Not sure why they're not hyperlinked but you can copy paste 🤷

I keep hearing about people switching, but is it just registering a new account at another instance? I joined world but would gladly jump instances to something more stable.

Just pick a mid-sized instance and there's a 99% chance it's more stable than Lemmy.world right now.

Look at users who don't sound insane and see where they're posting from.

Does the colored bar on top have a measure?

I think it’s an hour but I’m not really sure. They are the most recent pings.

I think lemmy.world is too large for the health of the fediverse. A nasty incident which takes it down permanently could "kill" Lemmy as a whole. Perhaps a sign up stop is in order.

I moved to a different instance about a month ago, after lemmy.world got hacked. I haven't had any issues on Midwest.social. I suggest other people do the same if they want Lemmy to be feasible in the long term. Get the fuck off Lemmy.world.

Here is a list of instances sorted by user count if anyone wants to move: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

So are you recommending to switch instances and not interact with lemmy.world and its users? I don't get this, what's the point of something getting popular if you can't interact with it? So those that got in early get to be here while others have to start from scratch?

And what happens if you have a question and your instance has 10 users, while world has 3000?

That's not how federation works. You can still interact with lemmy.world and its users from another instance, but spreading out not only helps with lemmy.world's load, but also the fediverse.

Lemmy is a federated network (part of the Fediverse), meaning that, for the most part, all instances are linked together and share most of the same information and comments. If people move from one instance to another then their experience will be almost identical.

If you already have an account on Lemmy.world then you can transfer your account information to an account on a different instance by using one of the many tools created by Lemmy's users. The reason you would move away from Lemmy.world is that it helps decentralize Lemmy's data, so that if one instance goes down it doesn't have a large impact on others' Lemmy experience.

If you are using an instance with only 10 users, then here are some issues you might run into: there are less users to update the instance's 'communities' page, so you might have to add some communities to the instance manually; there aren't as many people maintaining the instance, so it might not be as well-maintained as some larger instances; the server costs might not be worth hosting for just 10 users (donate to your host, if you have the means to do so). However, there are a lot of smaller instances that are just as well-maintained as Lemmy.world (like Midwest.social).

I hope this helped you understand Lemmy a little better.

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Attitudes like this are much worse for the health of the Fediverse, IMO.

A popular instance with users and content? Kill it immediately, we can't risk people actually using the Fediverse.

The fact is, lemmy.world's size is already actively harming the fediverse and it's quite annoying. No one said to "kill it" just stop it from growing even more

Instead of blocking sign-ups we can have Lemmy's sign up automatically recommend other servers.

Another developer and I already have a PR in development for it.

Here's the idea in more detail: https://lemm.ee/post/2800726

Wonderful compromise, love it. Thank you.

I agree, but they plan on making a message on the sign up screen encouraging users but not stopping sign up so... 🤷‍♂️

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Are they suffering DDOS attacks? They might need something like Cloudflare to combat this. Maybe some kind of reverse-proxy if the attack isn't super massive.

The current issue is actually an ongoing DB issue. It's not solely affecting LW.

Yes. My instance will sometime have unusual high load and it will overload the cpu unless restarted. 0.18.3 doesn't seems to fix it, and it only affect some instance but not all. It's hard to pinpoint what cause the loop to happen.

Lemmy.world Is down, but Lemmy as a whole is still up and running. This is why I like the fediverse

It's getting really annoying. Is there an mobile friendly way to migrate my account from lemmy.world to lemmy.zip?

You can always have multiple accounts

I guess the issue is to importing the huge list of blocked instances to the new account

I'll concede, that's a legitimately useful timesaver.

Why do you block instances? Sorry, new here

Because I have no interest in them, or they are NSFW and don't tag properly, or they are duplicates with ones I already follow (technology communities are a good example)

I personally follow all the technology communities and just show new subscribed content on my main page. Some content is the same but there's a lot of different posts too.

It kind of sucks that there's several sub's with a lot of people but then again, that's the point, right?

You do you, I just prefer to block them, as long as we are both happy, that's what matters!

Hello,

Hm, I'm afraid at this moment the most common solution is https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim, which requires a computer. Would you be able to get access to one at some point later?

I have access to my work MacBook. Would that work?

I'm not an expert in Rust, but I guess it should!

LASIM author here - it should! Though Mac OS X is the one platform I can't test on myself - I can build it through Github, and everything I did should be cross-platform, but I can't actually launch it myself to make sure everything is working fine.

Only other thing might be if their work Macbook imposes any restrictions on running arbitrary binaries from the internet - which it understandably might.

Ooh, I didn’t know about this, thank you. I’ve primarily been using kbin, but this sounds like a good tool to bookmark for the future.

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Yeah who are these fucks? Whats their damage? Somebody oughta go knock some sense into them

This single post :
https://lemmy.world/post/2874044
https://lemmy.ca/post/2904207
...has a comment from an hexbear user who thinks this is very funny.
(hidden from here because we defederated them)

I couldnt see the comment, but that would make sense that a hexbear user could be behind this - lot of effort though and lots of narcicissm needed too

Or maybe they made a brigade ?
There are many comments about this inside this post just under that comment which I made twice.
About the comment you could not see :
user name is "Alaskaball..."

Exactly for that reason I have created a second account on lemm.ee.

There is even a nice Python script to propagate your subscriptions and block lists to one or more other accounts.

Find it here: https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate

I did the same thing. Based off comments like this though it kinda seems like lemm.ee may turn into a lemmy.world 2.0.

They want to put out the fire. Let us show them the strength of the Hydra. Cut off one head and a thousand more shall take its place. We all remember what happened when they tried to end the piratebay.

Why are people attacking a msg board?

Because there's a very small chance one of the message board users might click on a link and get scammed for money?

Not sure if people dumb enough to click mystery links and hand Nigerian princes bit coin use these boards, but gl i guess lol

If you spam 1000 links, and 2% of people are really dumb, that's 20 suckers to steal from.

That pond always has fish in it!

I need another instance so I can lurk when this happens.

If it's just for lurking, look for a small one to help spread the load.

Try the one I'm on if your into sci-fi or fantasy

+1 to this. Imho it's not good for lemmy as a whole if people are concentrated on a few large instances. Any time one of those major instances experience issues, the effect is going be major.

I decided to make on on Lemm.ee. Seems pretty cool!

That's why I created this lemm.ee account. It seemed silly just waiting for lemmy.world to come back up all the time. That's the beauty of the Fediverse. 😁

Performance is also overall better via other instances. We were hesitant about migrating /r/android given the LW downtimes but ended up doing so when Cole offered us a place on lemdro.id. Awesome uptime and great performance thus far with his scaling solution - keeps costs low as well.

The more decentralized, the better!

That was definitely a controversial move. 😂

I think it's "easier" when you first come to Lemmy (or similar) to join the biggest server with all the communities. Being able to interact with communities everywhere, despite where your home instance is, takes some time to conceptualize. I actually think Lemmy has been easier to understand with that than, say, Mastodon.

Ideally this will be addressed by improved community discovery functionality in the apps and Lemmy-UI so folks don't need to really think about it.

I agree Lemmy is easier than Mastodon.

I would love to try a new instance but then I have to recreate a rather large block list.

Is there a way to copy your block list from one instance to another?

https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

Feels like this should be a core part of Lemmy, like just export and import a big string of data.

You can also create an alt on kbin and subscribe to Lemmy communities there. I'm posting this from kbin.social.

They are doing their best, but the users can help by spreading out to smaller instances. It's also much better for the fediverse as a whole to have many smaller instances instead of a few giant ones.

Maybe you want to join http://lemmy.today? It's located in Oregon (western USA) and is literally never down. I know since I'm addicted to Lemmy and I'm on it all the time now... :)

Also who doesnt like that cute little Lemmy icon it has. :) Looks like a very surprised lemming, or very happy one...

Cute icon indeed!

I remember talking to you about it a few days ago, has the admin clarified the redundancy question?

He is more than open to having several admins :) He is a Linux devops guy who is doing consulting in the area. It makes sense to have several admins due to the "bus factor" or what we shall call it.

Just have to find someone willing to help out. You know anyone?

Okay done. I'll give the instance a try and see how it goes. :)

I have like four different instances I'm using with accounts on each. I'm not sure the best route but feel like I should only have one or two accounts. Probably will keep the four for now just to see which instances seem most reliable. I'll try and keep this one in the back of my mind in case I need another instance though :)

In my experience lemmy.world and reddthat go down a decent amount, especially the latter.

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Well, I just created two alt accounts on sh.itjust.works and jlai.lu, copying my subscriptions with lemmy_migrate. Not too difficult, but we definitely need a simpler way to login into different servers...

Oohhh, that is why sometimes browsing to world gives me cuckflare error.

I know they suck at keeping your data safe, I know they are a monopoly, but... thats an odd choice of words

Downvoted for use of "cuck" - I don't know anything about you, but your word choice causes me to have angry feelings toward you.

You would think we all learned our lesson once Vlemmy broke