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lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by nutomic@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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This site is currently struggling to handle the amount of new users. I have already upgraded the server, but it will go down regardless if half of Reddit tries to join.

However Lemmy is federated software, meaning you can interact seamlessly with communities on other instances like beehaw.org or lemmy.one. The documentation explains in more detail how this works. Use the instance list to find one where you can register. Then use the Community Browser to find interesting communities. Paste the community url into the search field to follow it.

You can help other Reddit refugees by inviting them to the same Lemmy instance where you joined. This way we can spread the load across many different servers. And users with similar interests will end up together on the same instances. Others on the same instance can also automatically see posts from all the communities that you follow.

Edit: If you moderate a large subreddit, do not link your users directly to lemmy.ml in your announcements. That way the server will only go down sooner.

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[–] spinoza_the_jedi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Ok. I have what might be a strange question. Can you host a server but disable community creation (even if only temporarily)? So, the server would essentially just be a platform from which others could access content published elsewhere in the Fediverse. I'm assuming the load would then be on the database behind my instance, correct?

I'm a Platform/Cloud/DevOps Engineer (the titles are always changing) working in software. I'm reasonably sure I could host an instance to help out without much difficulty. But I'm not sure I'm ready to jump into the moderator role, though I realize I'll need to deal with those who break some basic rules.

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[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hi, as one of the new people, is there a way to transfer to another instance or would I have to create a new account there?

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You have to create a new account. But that's easy ;)

[–] jarfil@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

That's kind of wrong though, isn't it? What about stuff like GDPR data exports? Users should be able to export their data, then import it into another instance, effectively migrating instances.

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[–] spaghetti_carbanana@krabb.org 1 points 2 years ago

I hope it's not inappropriate to comment this here, but if anyone's looking for another space to join, I'm in the process of building Krab Borg. It would be lovely to have people to help fill it out and diversify the communities, as well as suggest what the local ones should look like as I have no idea.

I'm trying to balance not reinventing the wheel/duplicating existing communities 100 times but also still supporting the idea of decentralisation and creating some duplicates (though this isn't hard and fast, I'm open to feedback).

I've seeded it with some communities from other servers (including a bunch from lemmy.ml) to get things moving a bit as well.

[–] cosmicsploogedrizzle@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can I login to another instance with my lemmy.ml account? Or do I need multiple accounts?

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[–] super_user_do@feddit.it 1 points 2 years ago

I'm happy with Feddit ^_^

[–] Two9A@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Might be a silly question, but: does ActivityPub support setting up a subinstance that gets its data from somewhere else? Traditionally you'd probably do that with a pgsql machine and multiple frontends, but having thought about it while typing this out, putting that load on the ActivityPub protocol would mean loading up the master to much the same extent as just having the traffic hit the master directly...

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

You can setup a new instance (or join an existing one), then follow remote communities you are interested in. All the content will get mirrored over time, and you can interact with it seamlessly.

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[–] eoli3n@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

is there a way to see new users stats somewhere ?

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[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just tried making an account on beehaw but I'm not able to login, are they having problems as well or do they have some kind of an account screening proccess that just takes awhile?

[–] houseband23@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The majority of instances require manual review. beehaw is one of them.

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[–] darkkite@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder if a longer term solution would be to auto rotate the server list to bump less popular ones.

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[–] Helix@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

@ devs:

Can you please focus your work on optimising performance for the UI? It will greatly reduce the amount of electricity and money spent, so you're actually multiplying every tenth of a second you can shave off of CPU time...

Thank you a lot for writing this software. It's been a great little project so far and it seems to go down the Mastodon route of increased popularity. Be proud!

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