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The instance has been down several times over the past few days?

Is there some ongoing maintenance, or are we doomed to face the same as feddit.uk?

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://lemmy-world.statuspage.io/#month

They do a lot to be transparent and monitor availability.

There is an big usage jump before Xmas, I assume because of the recent lemmy version upgrade that many admins are saying uses more resources.

Give em some time, I'm sure there will be a patch soon.

Best part of the fediverse is you can just use a less popular server until things calm down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know I could, but many of the communities I follow, are on lemmy.world. So that doesn't mitigate the issue.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think you understand how a federated system works based on that comment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If the instance that hosts those communities goes down or struggles to stay afloat won't it struggle to federate its content outside its own network?

If I join another instance and lemmy.world is down, it's not like I can see the communities on lemmy.world.

Joining another instance as a user doesn't solve the problem that lemmy.world has bad uptime outside of the scope of reducing the load on LW itself

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Federation takes almost no server load. It'd all the people loading images and comment threads that cause the server to slow down. Yes federation can break, especially due to unexpected code changes, but typically using a federated, lower user count site helps over all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So what changed with Lemmy then? A few months back when I joined the ecosystem many instances including LW were unreachable for many hours a day. Joining up to a new instance didn't make LW content appear (as they were offline).

The issues today feel largely the same as a user, though less frequent. Am I misunderstanding?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

0.19.1 has a problem that causes higher than expected server load, as illustrated in my first post showing their utilization graphs.

As for a few months ago, "someone" was DDoSing lemmy.world almost constantly but i guess they ran out of money or got bored.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

It has? I haven't noticed. I'm guessing a lot of people have been bored over Christmas.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No i don't believe you'd have to worry about that.

Lemmy.world seems to get a lot of flack, which i guess comes with its size, but i am very happy with what they're doing. I think their team does a great job, thank you lemmy.world team!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, we're trying ❤️

Also to address the folks in the thread. We've noticed a ton of lag spikes over the last week. This is new to us. Things were very stable for a long time, even after the Pictrs upgrade. It might be v0.19.x related. We're going to run some tests later, but sometimes it's difficult for us to get to things due to work and family.

We're still here and listening 💪😎💪

I try and post stuff to Mastodon here and there.

When in doubt, check the dashboard 🤓

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I checked the status dasboard, mastodon and even the announcements, but nothing has been posted there. That's why I was a bit concerned.

Thx for the clarification 👍

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

World is probably overwhelmed again. I switched from world because of frequent outages. I don’t think you have to worry about UK scenario however, since the problem there was that the instance owner went awol.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy.World hasn't had many major issues since September, at least when I've been using it. It was really bad in the early days from June to August when they were constantly getting traffic + getting DDOS'd. It seems like they've had the best uptime overall, since then though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a kbin refugee, so joined lemmy just recently. I mean, I had an account here, but never actually used it until now. And admittedly I also never faced issues here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I actually have noticed a few times in the last few days that Lemmy world has timed out. But it has never actually been down for me. I would chalk it up to the higher resource usage of v0.19, hopefully that gets addressed by the Lemmy devs or World beefs things up a bit

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Easy there, Chicken Little, the sky isn't falling. That was just an acorn.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have noticed sometimes posting a comment will take longer but I just swap apps for a few when that happens.

You go when you’re ready lemmy pats mouse’s head

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use phtn.app mainly, and when encountering issues, I double-check lemmy.world

[–] orangeNgreen 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t think lemmy.world is going anywhere, but I keep this lemmy.ca account as a backup just in case of .world outages. It’s been coming in handy the last couple of days.

[–] mp3 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

glad to have you here :)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

For me it is more often slow than actually down.

[–] corsicanguppy 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The instance has been down several times over the past few days?

That reads like a statement but you're asking a question.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Surely not as bad as asking a question in the form of a statement is it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What do you mean.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Feddit.uk is still up you nonce. What are you on about?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was a whole lot of drama around it a couple of days ago.

https://lemmy.world/post/9908108

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Think I'm getting deja vu or Mandela'd. I swear I read that week's ago and it sorted itself out.

So what's the new instance URL?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It eventually came back online, and the people behind the new one don't want to share the new instance until it's "ready". I don't understand it either.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Feddit.uk went down for a bit and no one knows why. We're seemingly back now though.

There is only one fully privileged admin (the original owner), and they're not super present. We have two other admins but they're restricted in what they can do (don't have access to the server itself I think?, can't upgrade).

A couple of users are setting up a new UK lemmy instance in response to this situation. One of those users is very keen for it to be a replacement, hence the posts. Not everyone is on board with it though. It's been put in hold while they iron some things out.

It's not an "official" replacement for feddit.uk in that sense, but it's another UK instance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They need a dashingly handsome and charismatic leader such as me to show them the right path to glory. Unfortunately, I'm going to bed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude, why'd you call me a nonce? Can't you just use normal insults like idiot or moron.

btw, since english isn't my first language I had to look it up with the expectation of it meaning something funny like a donkey... but that's just a disgusting language.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago