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Lemmy.world down, probably following the upgrade. A reminder to move to smaller instances for a better experience (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

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[-] DawnOfRiku@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

Of course I have one or two other accounts, but I personally like Lemmy.world. They serve as a necessary stress test that shows the devs and admins how to optimize further, and I just like learning admin practices at this scale of a userbase from a work perspective. Plus I don't want to be on an instance so small they can't or don't know how to handle compliance stuff and evaporate if something like that comes up. Not saying I know how to handle all of those situations, that's the job of someone else at work.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago

I think that's one of the issues that the rest of the instances are facing to appear as trustful as LW. LW admins have a long established reputation and experience managing Fediverse services, and provide very good transparency and a large team.

Other instances are usually nowhere close to that (some will be in the future I hope). The question I usually raise when someone start promoting their instance is "how many admins do you have?´What happens if you run under a bus tomorrow (hopefully you'll stay safe of course)? Is there a back up plan in place?"

[-] grysbok 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, longevity and name recognition are why I went with sdf.org. They've been running many-user services for decades, even if the Lemmy service is pretty new.

ETA: they've been around since BBSes. I'm on a wicked nerdy old-school geek instance, and I love my local communities.