Technically, a DDoS can happen naturally if enough people are trying to use it at the same time. I've seen it happen to other, larger websites before. And lemmy.world definitely doesn't have the infrastructure of some of those larger websites.
have half dozen various types. no need to delete. fedi-wide accounts are still a wish. name them the same and carry on. can set a redirect on mastodon. not sure lemmy
IF you want to switch to an alternative instance use the tool Lasim to synchronize your accounts: synchronize subscriptions, settings and/or blocks. Tool is available for Windows, Linux and MacOs.
just pick another instance and create another account. same email. not complicated. can't migrate stuff you can't get to, meh
lemmy instances fediverse.observer
That's kind of what you want, though. A big enough operation that it probably won't just disappear or start enforcing really arbitrary and unreasonable rules, but small enough that it's not like lemmy.world.
Okay, granted, but only using the term "bogged down" adds to the misconception that the problem is too many accounts on the server. It should be clarified that it comes from a deliberate outside source.
The technical ability of current users doesn't reflect the hopeful demographic of "everybody". That's a good solution for those that have the ability, and shouldn't be the "go-to" solution for everyone.
I started at lemm.ee because I knew that signing up to the biggest instance was a bad idea. We have pretty good uptime and it doesn't seem like lemm.ee has been wrapped up in any of the drama of the bigger instances.
Join mine! I run several tools in order to federate with the most popular content automatically. I'm keeping user count limited, but sign ups are open at the moment.
I tried lemm.ee and it's cool but I see so many hexbear posts on the All tab from like any of their communities spewing hate and it's frustrating to scroll past
What apps do you recommend for swapping instances?
I have tried Jerboa and Connect. Both allow me to swap accounts from the main menu, but I am brought back to me default start view and not the community/thread I was looking at.
I noticed that, because I went to add my beehaw account that I had created when I joined Lemmy, but I guess beehaw deleted it for being inactive or something. Beehaw still shows up on my instance list, and I kind of wish I could remove it.
My instance has it. It's local communities are focused on a specific niche (books & writing) so it might not be your cup of tea though. But basically when setting it up you specify which instances it pulls from, how often it pulls and how many communities it can pull at a time. You can filter specific communities and instances, and it'll automatically ignore instances you've already defederated from. By default it pulls the top /all posts from the instances you specify. Mine pulls from a couple big instances and smaller niche instances as well every day around noon to get a solid diverse amount of content. You can also auto disable NSFW communities from populating as well. It's basically the equivalent of telling the bot to go to the front page of each instance, seeing the top posts of the day and pulling from each community that's there to check if it's federated into your instance or not and if it isn't itll pull it in for you.
With the way lemmy functions if a problematic community starts hitting /all an instance admin can just remove the community and it won't federate into the instance anymore. Ideally there would be more granular federation options in the future, but with the things that the seeding bot does now it works pretty well.
Some of it is also federating content in, you don't need an admin to do so for you. If you have a link to a different instances community, just pasting it into the search bar of your local instance will federate the community into your instance for you. Go to lemmyverse.net and find a community and its link then past it into the search of your local lemmy instance
Up time 76% on lemmy.world // last 24h.
No message from any of their admis.
Outside attack : usual shitheads.
And if LM LW fails, they will attack the next big one.
Edit #1 : LM is Lemmy.world
Edit #2 : oups LW ... not LM
Edit #3 : Lemmy.World status
Edit #4 : from 4am utc //24h :
Yes lol well, this is my hobby.
I find radio and TV mostly boring.
Here we have many nice people, liberty of speech and very low social pressure.
Lemmy is Fun 😄
The funny thing is that Reddit with its big teams and infrastructure was also sluggish and going down a lot this week and we keep forgetting that. No excuses for Reddit.
Same reason I am here. I had two small communities for my interests there, but it was down so often that I decided to move here AND move my communities. This place seems a lot more stable. That's really the downside of huge servers on lemmy IMO. If communities centralize on one server, whenever that one server is down, so are the communities for everyone.
I would totally run my own server but I'm not tech enough. I have spare hardware, and I have a 1GB fiber connection, but I am not a network security expert, so I am afraid my home IP address would be targeted and disrupt my house Internet in general. Even if I don't allow others to create account or communities on my server, I still feel like it's a risk for me because I am not skilled enough to deal with threats.
Yes. Both were only a few months old and I was the only one posting in them anyway, so I just started going back through all the links and posting them here. I'm sure there will be tools for automating it down the road, without it spamming the local feeds of the server it's moving to, but right now I know of no such application or feature.
I switched to lemm.ee, it's much more stable since it's not constantly being attacked by script kiddies. I have a theory a user got banned, and is making it their personal mission to ruin .world's performance. Please donate to your home instance owner(s) if they have that set up. Even if it's just a little, it can make everyone's experience better.
My home instance managed to get blocked by Lemmy World's Cloudflare firewall, probably because my Pleroma/Akkoma account and my Lemmy account are on the exact same IP.
Fun fact: it was my Pleroma's fault after all! Some confusion with its "transmogrifier" library was causing it to spam requests every 0.8 seconds on average - not even joking, at one point my IP was the largest source of incoming requests in the world. Sorry for the accidental DDOS
Lemmy.world is run by the same people as mastodon.world. I guess a lot of users from mastodon.world went to Lemmy.world and the rest was word of mouth.
Yeah, people just want a "generic" place because they generally don't want to be pidgeon holed. I have nice and inoffensive lemmy.world and lemmy.today accounts because of this. I'm basically a vanilla NPC in my life and "sh.itjust.works" is simply too spicy!
Well lemmygrad.ml loves to make memes about how great the Chinese government is and how everyone who criticises the Chinese government is just mean, and they're kind of the poster child for lemmy.ml, so...
Not like the actual fascist cuddling neo-libs that run Lemmy world . Stop using words you don't understand. Here is a response to Lemmy world preemptively Defederate hexbear (since the wrong opinions are not allowed on Lemmy world) https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1120052
hey man, don't care about your whataboutism, if you think China is a communist country and you are a big fan of what you are doing, then you like fascism simple as.
wjats so good about lemmy.world compared to lemmy.ml
nothing. lemmy.ml just makes more sense to me.i figure the devs of the protocol should be able to maintain and update their own server, and so far that has proven to be correct.
I'm actually seeing more and more .world users getting pissed as the downtimes become more frequent now.
I mean that is the problem of too many people being on that one instance.
From what I understand, capacity isn't the issue, it's that they're being repeatedly DDoS'ed
Technically, a DDoS can happen naturally if enough people are trying to use it at the same time. I've seen it happen to other, larger websites before. And lemmy.world definitely doesn't have the infrastructure of some of those larger websites.
Apparently that's not the case for lemmy.world, it seems someone is pissed for being banned so they're DDSOSing .world specifically.
Tho I agree all people trying to go to the same instance is not a smart thing.
Yep, I just saw the update they posted.
also can happen if the software you're using doesnt manage the requests properly flashbacks to slowloris
I really blame Sync for defaulting to lemmy.world, imo lemmy.world should close to new registrations, at least while they're figuring things out.
I moved instances after the downtime when Sync came out, it's been smooth sailing since
Yeah... it makes for a fucking awkward experience.
Just swapped to a different instance personally
Yup, no biggie. Will use .world when it's working and the other when it's not.
I just did the move. Tired of having the website offline and no info. Will delete the account soon
have half dozen various types. no need to delete. fedi-wide accounts are still a wish. name them the same and carry on. can set a redirect on mastodon. not sure lemmy
Thinking of the same thing, but if I delete my account on an instance, do the comments and posts from that account also get deleted?
Reddthat is worse tho
I haven't really had any issue, and was happy enough to donate to them. I joined a few instances for various reasons, but reddthat is my main
Not really
IF you want to switch to an alternative instance use the tool Lasim to synchronize your accounts: synchronize subscriptions, settings and/or blocks. Tool is available for Windows, Linux and MacOs.
Do you know of a way for those of us only on mobile to move subs over?
just pick another instance and create another account. same email. not complicated. can't migrate stuff you can't get to, meh lemmy instances fediverse.observer
Thanks, I know how to create a new account on a new server, I just hoped for an easy way to move all my subs.
No, sorry :(
Cuz you can just use another smaller instance, as you should.
Lemmy.zip and lemm.ee are cool
Everyone talking about how small and better lemm.ee is really starting to give "have you heard about this hidden gem The Witcher 3?" vibes.
lemm.ee isn't even that small. It's the 6th largest active lemmy instance iirc
Hidden. Gem.
That's the point of the joke, the witcher 3 is a huge game but people always act like they're in on some secret for knowing that it's good.
Celeste.
How many copies do you have?
Another good one, yeah. Or Hollow Knight.
/r/tomorrow is leaking
That's kind of what you want, though. A big enough operation that it probably won't just disappear or start enforcing really arbitrary and unreasonable rules, but small enough that it's not like lemmy.world.
For all the people that like to talk about having access to the whole fediverse and decide for themselves who to block...
mander.xyz and ttrpg.network are both rather niche instances in their own right, but don't defederate, and I don't believe are defederated by, anyone.
No one join them and say/do anything toxic though, don't ruin a good thing for me lol
Shhhh
well now you’ve done it
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Yeah, .zip represent
If only federation existed... and other instances existed....
Ah yes, let's forever create new accounts on new instances as they all get bogged down. Solid solution.
It's not "bogged down," it's being DDOS attacked.
What's the outcome of a DDOS attack again? XD
Okay, granted, but only using the term "bogged down" adds to the misconception that the problem is too many accounts on the server. It should be clarified that it comes from a deliberate outside source.
Just make your own instance and then you don't have to deal with high traffic and down time
Lol that's your solution for the common user?
It's my solution for myself, and I imagine a lot of folk on lemmy today are technically inclined enough that it's not an outlandish recommendation.
The technical ability of current users doesn't reflect the hopeful demographic of "everybody". That's a good solution for those that have the ability, and shouldn't be the "go-to" solution for everyone.
I made an account on sdf.org because I got tired of lemmy.world's servers going down. But I found out that SDF's servers often go down, too...
I'm doing pretty good so far.
Tbh I've just stopped using my world account at this point. Lemmy.ca has been much more reliable so far lol.
I started at lemm.ee because I knew that signing up to the biggest instance was a bad idea. We have pretty good uptime and it doesn't seem like lemm.ee has been wrapped up in any of the drama of the bigger instances.
Until a moose power - fucks the servers
As long as it's filmed for the content. Need to feed the meme machine.
Join mine! I run several tools in order to federate with the most popular content automatically. I'm keeping user count limited, but sign ups are open at the moment.
I like to keep shit simple. :D
I like your rules too. But I have to admit I didn’t know what “No tankie shit” meant, so I had to look it up. 😀 That was a new term for me.
Sent an application in!
I tried lemm.ee and it's cool but I see so many hexbear posts on the All tab from like any of their communities spewing hate and it's frustrating to scroll past
I believe there is a way to block instances, I don’t know if it blocks comments but i believe it would block the posts
Thats what I do. It's a strength of the fediverse, and most of the apps handle account swapping pretty seamlessly.
What apps do you recommend for swapping instances?
I have tried Jerboa and Connect. Both allow me to swap accounts from the main menu, but I am brought back to me default start view and not the community/thread I was looking at.
I really like Liftoff for this. You can choose instances on the fly while posting, searching, or reading comments without losing your spot.
It's really nice.
I noticed that, because I went to add my beehaw account that I had created when I joined Lemmy, but I guess beehaw deleted it for being inactive or something. Beehaw still shows up on my instance list, and I kind of wish I could remove it.
On your instances list long press Beehaw and the option to remove it will show up.
Omg, thank you so much
Some have community seeding bots that pull top communities and posts periodically from other instances.
My instance has it. It's local communities are focused on a specific niche (books & writing) so it might not be your cup of tea though. But basically when setting it up you specify which instances it pulls from, how often it pulls and how many communities it can pull at a time. You can filter specific communities and instances, and it'll automatically ignore instances you've already defederated from. By default it pulls the top /all posts from the instances you specify. Mine pulls from a couple big instances and smaller niche instances as well every day around noon to get a solid diverse amount of content. You can also auto disable NSFW communities from populating as well. It's basically the equivalent of telling the bot to go to the front page of each instance, seeing the top posts of the day and pulling from each community that's there to check if it's federated into your instance or not and if it isn't itll pull it in for you.
With the way lemmy functions if a problematic community starts hitting /all an instance admin can just remove the community and it won't federate into the instance anymore. Ideally there would be more granular federation options in the future, but with the things that the seeding bot does now it works pretty well.
Some of it is also federating content in, you don't need an admin to do so for you. If you have a link to a different instances community, just pasting it into the search bar of your local instance will federate the community into your instance for you. Go to lemmyverse.net and find a community and its link then past it into the search of your local lemmy instance
Really? You sometimes have to click the search button a few times.
Up time 76% on lemmy.world // last 24h.
No message from any of their admis.
Outside attack : usual shitheads. And if
LMLW fails, they will attack the next big one.Edit #1 : LM is Lemmy.world
Edit #2 : oups LW ... not LM
Edit #3 : Lemmy.World status
Edit #4 : from 4am utc //24h :
::: spoiler users who wanted LM explanation : @[email protected]
@15liam20@[email protected]
:::
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Is that info publicly available?
LW is currently down (for me, at least) and I'm curious if it tends to happen at the same time every day.
From the sidebar of the main page of lemmy.world, so :
That 76% was 2 hours ago, now at 74%
What is LM?
Little Mix
Googling returns nothing. Thanks troll
Sorry about the troll. Here's a serious answer: LM actually stands for laborious meandering.
Yes lol well, this is my hobby.
I find radio and TV mostly boring.
Here we have many nice people, liberty of speech and very low social pressure.
Lemmy is Fun 😄
indeed Snowden is a real hero !
thanks for your kind comments 😋 !
Please notice the edit of my previous comment answering your question.
I never gave reddit 1c and blocked all ads. I donate to lemmy.world.
I have zero anger when lemmy is down, I despised reddit, especially towards the end.
I really wish more people would donate to lemmy I think it's totally fair to pay for someone to manage and help with running the site.
It's hard to just say "volunteer".... Even if people volunteer and we can only afford to send 50% of their fee their way it's still something....
If we want lemmy to thrive without ads we have to all pitch in. Just give 2$/ month... If we all did that we'd be able to hire people full time...
Gotta love decentralised shit
The funny thing is that Reddit with its big teams and infrastructure was also sluggish and going down a lot this week and we keep forgetting that. No excuses for Reddit.
I mean communities being on world is an issue too.
Same reason I am here. I had two small communities for my interests there, but it was down so often that I decided to move here AND move my communities. This place seems a lot more stable. That's really the downside of huge servers on lemmy IMO. If communities centralize on one server, whenever that one server is down, so are the communities for everyone.
I would totally run my own server but I'm not tech enough. I have spare hardware, and I have a 1GB fiber connection, but I am not a network security expert, so I am afraid my home IP address would be targeted and disrupt my house Internet in general. Even if I don't allow others to create account or communities on my server, I still feel like it's a risk for me because I am not skilled enough to deal with threats.
How do you move a community, start fresh?
Yes. Both were only a few months old and I was the only one posting in them anyway, so I just started going back through all the links and posting them here. I'm sure there will be tools for automating it down the road, without it spamming the local feeds of the server it's moving to, but right now I know of no such application or feature.
I switched to lemm.ee, it's much more stable since it's not constantly being attacked by script kiddies. I have a theory a user got banned, and is making it their personal mission to ruin .world's performance. Please donate to your home instance owner(s) if they have that set up. Even if it's just a little, it can make everyone's experience better.
Not having just an account on .world is a necessity since it's the favorite target of attacks (at least, I'm assuming that's why it's down so much).
My home instance managed to get blocked by Lemmy World's Cloudflare firewall, probably because my Pleroma/Akkoma account and my Lemmy account are on the exact same IP.
Fun fact: it was my Pleroma's fault after all! Some confusion with its "transmogrifier" library was causing it to spam requests every 0.8 seconds on average - not even joking, at one point my IP was the largest source of incoming requests in the world. Sorry for the accidental DDOS
this is the opposite on reddit (obvious reasons). ppl go ham when someone mentions lemmy.world is down lol
Which is especially funny since you can just log into a different instance and keep browsing, unlike with Reddit.
options are optional
wjats so good about lemmy.world compared to lemmy.ml
More letters
Lemmy.world is run by the same people as mastodon.world. I guess a lot of users from mastodon.world went to Lemmy.world and the rest was word of mouth.
I think the name does a lot of heavy lifting in regards to pulling in new users. It sounds more official or general because of the world part.
Yeah, people just want a "generic" place because they generally don't want to be pidgeon holed. I have nice and inoffensive lemmy.world and lemmy.today accounts because of this. I'm basically a vanilla NPC in my life and "sh.itjust.works" is simply too spicy!
I’m on the spicy instance? I couldn’t tell.
This is more or less what I thought when I first joined.
Also Sync has it as default.
lemmy.world isn't run by communists
that sounds like a downside, unless you mean the kinda USSR/Chinese "communists" that are just state capitalists/feudalists
Well lemmygrad.ml loves to make memes about how great the Chinese government is and how everyone who criticises the Chinese government is just mean, and they're kind of the poster child for lemmy.ml, so...
well those are like pro fascist people, not exactly communists, because current china is very much fascistic in it's behavior.
Not like the actual fascist cuddling neo-libs that run Lemmy world . Stop using words you don't understand. Here is a response to Lemmy world preemptively Defederate hexbear (since the wrong opinions are not allowed on Lemmy world) https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1120052
hey man, don't care about your whataboutism, if you think China is a communist country and you are a big fan of what you are doing, then you like fascism simple as.
if I was, you would be incorrect. Go read a book. .world is run by fascist cuddling neolibs either way. You shouldn't use words you don't understand.
That's exactly the kind of people who run ml sadly.
nothing. lemmy.ml just makes more sense to me.i figure the devs of the protocol should be able to maintain and update their own server, and so far that has proven to be correct.
I heard lemmy.ml is run by genocide denying tankies so that put me off from it a little
Reddit servers down? Didn't notice
Lemmy[.]ca user for this reason haha
Lemmy goes down more than a 2 dollar hooker on a Friday night. But the only reason I care is because I don't use the other site.
Kbin.social alt accounts rise up!
My main kbin account is kbin.cafe but im using this one for Artemis until kbin API is properly implemented
that's exactly the reason I made an account here