Yes I know they're getting DDoSed, I'm just messing around
crummysocks 11 points 3 years ago path: 0 2230297 2230920, hotness: undefined, score: 11, children: 5
VikingHippie 32 points 3 years ago
Your username is one r away from demonstrating obvious bias when it comes to loads, though..
VikingHippie 4 points 3 years ago
You're welcome.
crummysocks 5 points 3 years ago path: 0 2230297 2230920 2231021 2231788, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 1
VikingHippie 3 points 3 years ago
I believe you did, hence my updoot. doffs cap
FlihpFlorp 8 points 3 years ago
In my totally unbiased opinion you should join lemm.ee
tron 8 points 3 years ago
No no no no no. We don't want to people to join and enjoy our near 100% uptime. Also be warned that lemm.ee isn't de-federated with lemmynsfw so you'll get PORN on your all feed. The horror. Steer clear.
FirstMajesticComet 2 points 3 years ago
block the porn communities or disable NSFW, that's what I did (at least before lemmy.blahaj.zone defederated from them)
deadsenator 8 points 3 years ago
Yes, Sopuli seems like a main server. Love it.
travysh 7 points 3 years ago
Virtually identical absolutely. But in my personal experience over the last few months, I see content that's in lemmy.world that's not on lemm.ee
For a while, because content was more thin, I'd run through all of active, then all of hot, then I'd look at lemmy.world just to see if there was content I hadn't seen yet
Reborn2966 5 points 3 years ago
what if every instance used the lemmy community seeder?
MyNameIsIgglePiggle 5 points 3 years ago
So I don't know enough about the inner workings, but on Reddit I never browsed all at all - it was 100% communities I'd subscribed to. At the moment I'm happy with Lemmy All, but if in the future when content gets too much, would I say, be able to host my own instance in my Android device and my subscriptions will just pull in the content I'm interested in? That way I am not putting load on other instances, and I can take my configuration with me without needing a cloud service?
AzuleBlade 2 points 3 years ago
My understanding is you can't host your own instance on an Android device, you'd need a server. You could stand up a server on Oracle Cloud, their Always Free tier is pretty generous.
psilocybin 3 points 3 years ago
Content fringe world inhabitant here:
Why is our All tab less diverse?
Is it not just dependent on how many instances your instance is federating with?
danielton 14 points 3 years ago
The main issue is that Lemmy instances, by default, only know about their local communities and remote communities that the users of that server have deliberately subscribed to. Some smaller instances are running federation helpers which are bots that search for remote communities to fix this.
psilocybin 4 points 3 years ago
Thanks for clarifying. Makes sense
Good to learn about some of the piping underneath
Stoneykins 6 points 3 years ago
All is based on what people on that instance are subscribed to most, not just federation
psilocybin 2 points 3 years ago
Makes sense. It only pulls in what users on the instance subscribe to.
Thanks for clarifying!
r00ty 3 points 3 years ago
You subscribe to individual communities. So unless a user or the admin already subscribed to a community there won't be any content there from those communities.
Even after subscribing only new content (and old content that has had replies/likes) will show up.
Nemoychocs 2 points 3 years ago
Can you explain this? Why? If I follow the same communities that in the bigger instance?
Sl00k 7 points 3 years ago
Your subscribed will be the same. All will differ as it grabs everything everyone on that instance is subscribed to.
Ex. If you're on lemmyworld you'll see everything there by default but if you swap to instance X and nobody in x is subbed to niche.community@lemmyworld then it won't be brought to your All
Nemoychocs 4 points 3 years ago
Ok! I had misconception of “All” I thought that it shows literally All! Thanks for the explanation!!
traveler01 20 points 3 years ago path: 0 2229752 2230515 2231112, hotness: undefined, score: 20, children: 1
kmkz_ninja 15 points 3 years ago
Spending 100 bucks on your nephews to run some code on their home connections - Priceless.
AndreyAsimow 5 points 3 years ago
Duck Spez
wander1236 3 points 3 years ago
Quack
maynarkh 21 points 3 years ago
Apparently it's a wannabe powermod who got banned after squatting a ton of community names. There was a post from the admins saying that he's creating garbage communities, with a quarter of all communities being those at one point.
antik 4 points 3 years ago
Who you are talking about is indeed an option because he was genuinely pissed off.. He created scripts to create thousands of communities so we set up rate limits 😁 But there are plenty more who don't want LW to succeed. Be it banned users, defederated instances or just someone with too much time looking to take down the biggest instance.
There was also a (now banned) reddit mod who used to moderate gamingcirclejerk there and she demanded me to hand over the gamingcirclejerk community on LW to her. To just take it from the current team. I said no but I can be a middleman but she wanted none of that. She wanted the red carpet laid out 'because reddit mod' so she had the right to it 🙄 She was also a very known user on an instance we recently defederated with.
So just wanted to clear that up here. We have suspicions but no proof. Thanks for your support 🫶
SloppyPuppy 10 points 3 years ago
Its the internet. What can be attacked will be attacked. Unrelated to opinions or hatred or anything.
site of only cute puppies pictures? if it can be attacked it will be.
gerryflap 43 points 3 years ago
I just jumped to another instance. Feels good now that stuff loads again. This sucks right now, but it's probably good for Lemmy in the long run. Load should be spread across instances, and this forces people to move. I've also noticed that I now see some stuff that I couldn't anymore on Lemmy.world, so it's better overall.
Resistentialism 4 points 3 years ago
Due to me only really using my phone for 3rd party youtube and lemmy, I decided, after thinking the other day "if .world goes down again, I'm gonna create an alt just as a backup."
And then it happened last kigjt, so I've made 3 new ones, just as a safety backup. Now I've heard of LASIM. It was super easy.
LaunchesKayaks 29 points 3 years ago
When lemmy.world goes down, I use the time it is down to do other things. Like read, spend more quality time with my pets, learn something new, or just go outside and touch some grass.
FirstMajesticComet 24 points 3 years ago
It's not a load problem though, it's because some loser is DDoSing the server. Doesn't hurt to move to other instances where it isn't happening but the real solution would be to find who's doing this so they can be brought to justice (or silenced from the internet forever, whichever is easier).
Please tell others to stop misrepresenting this issue, it is an attack, not a user overload problem and nobody who's misrepresenting it that way is doing anyone any favors except the attackers by presenting it as such. Instead it should be presented as what it is.
Fish 23 points 3 years ago
Here is some useful information for people wanting to move instances. For a list of instances, along with with stats for those instances:
https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy or https://lemmyverse.net/
Also, tools for migrating instances:
https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim
lemmy 19 points 3 years ago
Anyone is welcome to join my instance at endlesstalk.org. Its running on a pretty beefy server, so it can take a decent amount of users.
There are multiple frontends like lemmy.world and I have setup a seeder(lemmony), so the all feed should be pretty filled.
donescobar 19 points 3 years ago
Honestly, given the current state of affairs I wouldn’t have it any other way.
The little time these turds spend attacking the site I call my mental health break from the madness.
LongbottomLeaf 7 points 3 years ago
Yeah! Leave Gandalf's stash alone, smoke Saruman's instead.
radioactiveradio 18 points 3 years ago
Spread the Load!
That's what she said.
Regards, RadioactiveRadio
VikingHippie 6 points 3 years ago
Same here. Probably gonna make this one my main now that world has gone on a defederating spree, make a third or both.
Squids 5 points 3 years ago
I honestly I don't get why people don't just, y'know, join instances that are more local. It would solve the "everything's in a different language!" Issue too because now the main foreign language is, y'know, one you speak.
Or - yeah I did the same I joined a Finnish instance because I live right next door and it seemed like the logical thing to do and screw Denmark
Vash63 13 points 3 years ago
It doesn't help that the donation links still are just for Mastodon world, with no clear way to even find the donation links from Lemmy world. They put out a posting for sysadmins with part time hours for free... As a sysadmin I definitely don't have time for that shit. Maybe they could make the donation links more obvious and try to hire actual staff if they need help.
antik 2 points 3 years ago
Well you say that but we have plenty of sysadmins who applied and most of us are it professionals already doing this as a hobby project. I think we tackled that in our most recent announcement. If that is not for you that is fine.
The donations to mastodon.world are shared with those to lemmy.world. LW admin Ruud has been very open in his near-monthly blogs: https://blog.mastodon.world/
These blog posts are also announced on Lemmy World. I think it is all pretty clear.
Vash63 1 point 3 years ago
It took me way too much searching to find that. Think about it as a user looking for a donation link, the website's drop down has a link to donate to Lemmy's codebase but nothing clear for Lemmy world.
erasebegin 12 points 3 years ago
I joined another instance and it closed within 2-3 weeks...
erasebegin 13 points 3 years ago
This seems to be a serious downside to this system. Anyone who values a persistent profile is putting their precious data in the hands of some random instance that may or may not go bust in the near or (perhaps worse) distant future.
I'm on lemmy.world because it's the most likely to survive
Newchair 4 points 3 years ago
i think this is bring worked on, but in the meantime, you can still transfer subscribed communities with lemmy migrate
Leer10 3 points 3 years ago
I'd love there to be a Trust on first use signed user record and a DHT of associated servers that would allow profile references to point to the most recently made user profile with the same key as the oldest one.
ALostInquirer 3 points 3 years ago
This seems to be a serious downside to this system. Anyone who values a persistent profile is putting their precious data in the hands of some random instance that may or may not go bust in the near or (perhaps worse) distant future.
Isn't this the downside to any system reliant on remote operators?
For any truly valuable data, the solutions remain the same, keep local copies, create backups, and store some backups offsite. As-is it seems like perhaps too many people rely strictly on offsite solutions as their singular data store, which is as bad practice as only having local backups, tbh.
Spliffman1 3 points 3 years ago path: 0 2236971 2237038 2255627, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
mrmanager 6 points 3 years ago
I'm never closing mine as long as it has active users. Please come if it's a good location for you - western USA. Performance and uptime is really good but you will have some network latency if you are on the other side of the world.
xX_fnord_Xx 9 points 3 years ago
I'm going to spread the load so hard. :Sweat:
TheFunkyMonk 9 points 3 years ago
So I’m totally new to federated apps and just joined the biggest one figuring it’d be the most reliable.
I understand the downside of all/local filtering being less useful on smaller instances, but I don’t use those anyway, so would be curious about a couple of things if anyone has advice:
- How would you go about choosing an instance assuming reliability/speed was all you cared about?
- Is there somehow a way to transfer the topics I subscribe to/content I’ve submitted to a new instance, or would I basically just be starting over if I switched?
CheshireSnake 8 points 3 years ago
Of course location is not a guarantee of fast speeds, but you can at least check servers nearby with https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map. I guess you can check for uptime to have an idea about reliability, but I never really relied on that. Shit happens (vlemmy comes to mind) so it's hard to gauge an instance's future reliability/stability. You have the option to start your own instance as well.
Reborn2966 3 points 3 years ago
other useful links:
- an account sync script in python: https://github.com/Ac5000/lemmy_account_sync
- uptime of most lemmy instances: https://lestat.org/
TheFunkyMonk 3 points 3 years ago
This is great, thank you!
CheshireSnake 3 points 3 years ago
Hope you find the right instance for you. Welcome to lemmy!
SorteKanin 6 points 3 years ago
Choose a server that is oriented to your geographical location.
StorageAware 9 points 3 years ago
Yep! I made an account on my current instance after starting on one of the bigger ones. I still have my old one just in case. But now that some of the smaller communities I followed have started coming in it feels identical!
StorageAware 1 point 3 years ago
Yeah, I have heard of that and tried using it but I couldn't get it to run. I just ended up doing it manually as I didn't have that many communities anyways.
ForgetReddit 8 points 3 years ago
I have been here for months and still have no idea what this means
That’s probably a bad sign
mildpepper 12 points 3 years ago
The site you make your account on is your home server (instance). That server takes on the job of processing your data when you use lemmy. Your home server is lemmy.world, mine right now is lemm.ee
If a lot of people use the same home server, it gets expensive for the team running that server, the meme is about lemmy.world having issues with downtime because of this. You can have whatever home server you want and still access anything on the fediverse, so if you join a smaller instance as your home server, by literally making a new account on a different lemmy site, you can still use lemmy exactly the same (use your app to look at all instead of local) but spread the load so big instances like lemmy.world don't have too much strain. Doing this is good for the long term health of the fediverse.
xusontha 7 points 3 years ago
Basically lemmy.world is the largest lemmy instance by a country mile, and so it keeps going down because of DDos attacks and just sheer load Maybe you haven't noticed because the client/app you use just shows old posts until it can connect to the server again
unreachable 0 points 3 years ago
please delete this cousin
scrubbles 7 points 3 years ago
Sound off your instances folks! If you like pop music and
- You want to create pop music related communities
- You want to hang around other popheads
Come check us out at poptalk.scrubbles.tech. There are dozens of us here on Lemmy. Dozens!
scrubbles 3 points 3 years ago
I'm the admin, try not to defederate unless it's necessary, like too many trolls coming into our instance and NSFW, because then I'm hosting it and I can't do that.
But other than that I try to keep it open
xusontha 3 points 3 years ago
I've got notifications for when a new release comes out and I normally get at least one a day, one time I got like 5 in a day The development is going crazy fast, and it's still amazingly good!
samus12345 5 points 3 years ago
Didn't really have a choice if I wanted to use Lemmy!
sounddrill 1 point 3 years ago
If there was a php solution, I would be hosting one
DerKanzler 4 points 3 years ago
I mean chrome is not responsible for whatever the shit some websites host.
Kolanaki 1 point 3 years ago
Every time I hear the phrase "spread the load" I keep remembering a scene from a movie where some kid jerks off in his pants and then wipes his jizz on a bunch of books in the library. Can't remember the name of the film, but I remember it had Jeff Daniels in it as the kid's dad and that one scene.
interdimensionalmeme -5 points 3 years ago
Every Lemmy user should run a single user server instance on their phone. Setting it up should be as easy as installing any other app. And doing this should not depend on any cloud infrastructure beyond DNS
VikingHippie 17 points 3 years ago
Yeah, everything looks too left when your vantage point is the far right 🙄
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