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lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This site is currently struggling to handle the amount of new users. I have already upgraded the server, but it will go down regardless if half of Reddit tries to join.

However Lemmy is federated software, meaning you can interact seamlessly with communities on other instances like beehaw.org or lemmy.one. The documentation explains in more detail how this works. Use the instance list to find one where you can register. Then use the Community Browser to find interesting communities. Paste the community url into the search field to follow it.

You can help other Reddit refugees by inviting them to the same Lemmy instance where you joined. This way we can spread the load across many different servers. And users with similar interests will end up together on the same instances. Others on the same instance can also automatically see posts from all the communities that you follow.

Edit: If you moderate a large subreddit, do not link your users directly to lemmy.ml in your announcements. That way the server will only go down sooner.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks like beehaw.org is down

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Lol yeah. I learned my lessons from using Matrix.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can someone recommend me a vps service provider that works ideal for a lemmy instance ?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have the cheapest Hetzner VPS (it's less than 5€/mo iirc), and I run a few self-hosted services on it. I'll try to install Lemmy this week just to see, but I don't doubt it will work without any issue.

I'm probably not going to open it to registrations tho, not really the kind of stuff I want to manage.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What if I wanted to create an instance where upvotes are disabled? Could that be possible? @nutomic

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

@[email protected] what kind of hosting do you guys use for lemmy.ml? At the time of writing it looks like you have around 33k users and around 2k active. What does that look like for resources consumed?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

is there some kind of status page to have a look at and see how things are going? I cannot make any comments to a specific community at the moment and wondering why.

EDIT: Figured it out, when I tried to leave a comment via Jerboa I got an error "Language not allowed" and so I selected a language on the desktop site and then my comment went through. Note that this error does not appear on desktop site so I had no idea what was going on and why my comment was not going through

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Im a lemmy.ml user since 2021. I need to create a community 'goth-music-oriented' or need help to get /c/goth more visible (it doesn't appear in the lemmy community browsing.

The former community creator, Maya, i think she abandoned the community. Her last post was 2 years ago. Thank you in advance for any help.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Sad to hear that. I guess I will wait a bit for it to calm down then, because this has been my favourite instance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Have already moved - will keep hunting for the best instance for me but appreciate this Digg jr aka reddit killer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Is there any way to help out with hardware when you are peaking ? I don't have the necessary knowledge about the fediverse, but I was thinking connecting my own server, or perhaps just open a 'help out' page where some webassembly/webrtc is taking some of your peak load ?

I wouldn't mind opening an extra 'worker' page or having a helper service on my server, when I feel the lemmy server is peaking.

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