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[Resolved] Lemmy.world currently down (www.isitdownrightnow.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Blaze@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works
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[–] DangerToad@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Finally signed up for another instance cause world went down

[–] CyberBoy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is the way. Users should try to spread themselves out when possible so that any one instance doesn't get overloaded.

I keep 2 alt accounts (on different instances) in case my main account goes down.

I'm debating spinning up my own instance. I plan to cycle through accounts every so often like I did on Reddit (used to be 1-2 years), so I'll probably just change instances when I do.

For now, this instance seems to work well, so I'm sticking to it.

[–] Pxtl@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

imho this reflects a huge failure of the fediverse. Our accounts shouldn't be tied to an instance that's hosting content, they should be on a an auth-only server that only is responsible for managing our identity, separate from the content-servers. Then it would be up to content-servers to decide how much content they want to federate about an identity to show on that user's profile-page on this particular content-server. Like either federating it right in (hey here's @Pxtl's profile/feed scraped from every fediverse server they use directly) or just autogenerating links to their content on other servers (we don't want to host content from HowToBlowUpAPipelineLemmy.org on Lemmy.world but here's a link to @Pxtl's posts there).

Wouldn't it be cool to have the same identity on Mastodon as on Lemmy?

Then you could continue to participate in the fediverse without creating a new user-account on every server. Of course, the auth servers would still be vulnerable to outage but since they're lower load and just providing auth they'd be much less vulnerable.

[–] rarely@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[–] BMO@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I created this account on a different instance yesterday because I was having the same problem. Looks like I'll be using it today too. Always good to have a backup.

[–] DangerToad@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, I agree. Choosing which instance to be the backup though, was a little hard lol

[–] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not, at least in regards to lemmy.world. it's so generic that it's easy to find another that has the same rules (ie, very few rules). It's better to use your backups than not. That's one of the reasons lemmy.world is down. Folks aren't spreading out. They're not taking advantage of the fediverse and are making a single point of failure where there shouldn't be one.

[–] DangerToad@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I can barely decide what I want for dinner lol don’t underestimate the power of indecisiveness. I also wanted to make sure I chose an instance that had decent admins and a domain not being reclaimed.

And I’d cut people some slack, lotta people are used to everything being centralized. It’s gonna take time for everyone to learn the wonder that is the fediverse. I’m more than willing to ride this bumpy wave as the fediverse grows

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Usually, I just look at https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list, see which one has a decent amount of monthly users (1m) so that the All feed is still pretty full, and I check how is the ping