Plot twist: it’s the lemmy.ml team doing the ddos’ing
I mean they did say the attackers had intimate knowledge of Lemmy so…
That is not saying anything, the full documentation and source code is public for everyone to read.
Time to point fingers (at other instances)!!!1
who is doing the ddosing is prime material for conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theorists are doing the ddosing
“Can’t have a problem if I’m the problem”
points to head
Lemmy.world is ddosing themselves to make them look like a victim so that people will flock to their instance in support
no i’m not
It’s all a LARP!
It’s obviously funded by spez
Ugh. For five peaceful seconds I’d forgotten about that ungainly rat.
It’s like the game but with Spez
Screw you, I forgot about the game.
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Just an anecdote, but I’ve been waiting for (I think) close to 36 hours for the email verification to complete my sign-up there. Since there’s no way to resend it, I’ve been stuck in sign-up limbo.
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I’ve tried creating two accounts with the same issue. One with a Gmail address and one with a Fastmail account. Neither has received a verification email. I’ve checked the spam folders on both too.
Ah yes, so they have another large instance to ddos
Use smaller instances like lemmy.zip or lemm.ee. You know, the entire point of decentralization.
It’s not just about users though, we need to separate communities as well. There are so many communities on lemmy.world currently.
This. I feel like world isn’t prioritizing the health of the entirety of Lemmy by not closing community creation.
Isn’t that up to the creators though. If world is their home instance, why would they create elsewhere? Not being able to create communities would kind of defeat the purpose.
If creators want engagement, they will create on subs with more uptime. That will likely be world in the future, when hardened. The ddos attacks aren’t good for Lemmy now, but it should iron out some wrinkles in the long run for all instances. I think the world admins are doing a great job, both technically and communication wise.
I think you put too much stock into the ddos explanation. I’m not saying it’s not a thing, but there are bigger issues that it seems won’t be resolved before Lemmy 1.0
Regarding your first question, tf is my home but I have created communities on different instances. Some instances because the community fits the instance, some because I like the URL. I figure it’s best to decentralise as much as possible.
As to your last point, I think some of what the admins at world have done is tremendous and I celebrate their commitment to world, but there’s limitations to the software, as they well know and ultimately this is a decentralised platform of which loads of little instances are supposed to make up the larger whole.
I kind of expected some people to start instances for mostly just making accounts (some of which I have seen), and for other people to make instances just for community hosting and disallow account creation (and afaik this hasn’t been done to any appreciable degree). I’m not sure this is even possible or functionally useful with the way lemmy currently works for community creation and stuff, so maybe that’s why it didn’t happen.
Honestly I even expected some instances to pop up with the sole intent and purpose of serving one community, but even stuff like the startrek instance have account creation available.
Maybe it’s because lemmy is so new for people. Niche instances would rather host accounts than scare users away in an effort to get them to sign up elsewhere.
You can’t remotely make communities.
Well that would explain why there isn’t a general use community only instance. Honestly that feels like a feature that should exist, while still leaving “local only” as an instance setting for people who like it that way.
Still seems odd for instances with a specific set of premade communities with new ones disabled to worry about hosting accounts, like the startrek one.
People are looking for an easy access server for lemmy, they search for it and because of SEO the most popular servers are the ones they see.
Lemmy needs a refpost system where you can choose to post articles to different instances that link together.
You then can get all the benefits of centralization without necessarily being centralized.
How long will it take, do you think, for lemm.ee to become one of the bigger instances? I keep seeing people mention it, and that’s why I’m here.
lemm.ee is larger than lemmy.ml by active users monthly, as such it’s already the second largest instance. Don’t let the “total users” number confuse you: lemmy.ml is ancient and is bound to have many inactive accounts.
Wow, didn’t know that. Makes sense why I see so many lemm.ee users then
Ig it shouldn’t be recommended as a smaller instance then
It still has one eighth the users of world. World is just absolutely huge compared to the rest.
I actually migrated to lemmy.ca, eh, since lemmy.world is down half the fucking time. I have enemies to destroy, and I don’t got time for that shit.
Lemmy.ca is the superior instance and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
is it canada or california based? or is it neither and just the domain they happened to pick?
The .ca domain is Canadian.
Canada
Are those enemies the Lemmy.world servers?
Would be great if people spread out a bit.
Use small instances. I’ve never had trouble on lemdro.id.
How do I even find other instances? Not trying to sound like a turd, I just legitimately haven’t looked into it at all yet
You could use lemmyverse.net to look what instances and communities there are
I think it usually just involves look around the comment sections. People are like “I’m on this instance, it’s good blah blah blah.”
In my case though I chose lemdro.id because it’s an instance that centers around a topic I’m interested in.
If lemmy.ml is accepting signups I heartily recommend it.
Or make your own
This is the way.
Don’t join big instances. There should be no main instance. Join small instances. Spread the load
That’s what she said
Not a competition.
yeah it is.
Only competition should be Reddit not other instances
Meanwhile me on lemmy.zip -
grabs popcorn
I truly dislike .zip domain names tho
Are they too compressed for you? ;)
Is it due to the scammy potential uses of the domain?
Yeah, I truly don’t understand how it became a top domain
lemmy.sdf.org is a nice instance.
Kbin.social has been incredibly solid recently
I’m a big fan, just wish it didn’t block so much nsfw stuff
I feel like it’s been pretty solid the whole time.
First couple weeks were pretty rough, but it’s been real smooth sailing since that all got smoothed out
Yeah I almost claimed the whole time too, but that felt like I’d be lying by omitting those early days.
because we don’t have a fascist tankie at the helm 😎
Please don’t play into Enlightened Centrist horseshoe theory crap by pretending that the idiots of both extremes are identical… While it has some superficial things in common with Stalin style tankiness, fascism is 100% a right wing ideology.
shh don’t jinx it
we just took a nap
It’ll be back eventually, bigger and stronger than before 💪
It’ll be back eventually, bigger and stronger than before 💪
