2y ago

has lemmy.world been going down these past few days or is it the app I use?

For hours today, yesterday, and intermittently since I've been on here (a month or so) lemmy stops loading using jerboa, liftoff, and a web browser.

The site isn't listed on any down detector I know of, and each app gives different errors but ultimately just won't load.

It's often enough that recently when I consider jumping on here I just don't because there will probably be an issue. Ranging from not loading, JSON errors, or just blank screens and my comments not working..

What's going on? Is there a status page for these places?

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There is a status page up on https://status.lemmy.world
We have been dealing with some DDOS attacks and are still taking extra measures to get everything more stable but we are working with people in different timezones so it's not always as easy to react.
So yes, we are working on improving things.
- Growing pains! I’m much happier here then elsewhere.
  
  See, and that makes us happy
- Perfect thank you!
  Do you guys need help dealing with the security side? I can help depending on the need.
  
  How good is your karate? I think they could use another security guard.
- Hacker attacks, a tankie power mod, incel, /poltics being toxic. I think this site has really made it.
  
  It feels good to be home
- You guys have been doing an awesome job maintaining the site, keep it up 👍
- Thanks!
- Thanks for all your hard work!
- Sorry for being a bit harsh, but I have little sympathy for the admins of lemmy.world. Instead of looking for ways to disperse the people around other instances, it seems that the people behind .world are rushing to grab mindshare and concentrate as many people as they can in their own servers.
  The threadiverse is not healthy when almost 50% of the active user base is in the same instance. The lemmy.ml admins basically shut down their instance for registration and said "please look elsewhere". Why can't you do the same?
  
  It's not that we can not handle the load caused by users or by the amount of communities. It's because of DDOS attacks and even with cloudflare some of these attacks are challenging due to the way lemmy works. No instance is safe from these attacks but the bigger instances get targeted. We weren't the only instance that went down today.
  I don't think we do anything wrong here? None of us are being paid, we all put in a lot of time and effort to keep things running. You don't know how many passionate people are involved "behind the scenes" seeing you call out the admins of lemmy.world.
  You can't please everyone, and some people will always find a stick. But I still think a lot of people believe in our team, our policies and what we are trying to do here. If that's not your thing, fine, you can look elsewhere.
  
  They're not advertising or telling people to come to lemmy.world.... people are coming here and they're just accommodating them instead of blowing them off
  
  The threadiverse is not healthy when almost 50% of the active user base is in the same instance.
  Eh, it's only a tiny fraction of what the userbase will be eventually, so unless other instances fail to step up the "problem" will solve itself.
  It's not lemmy.world's fault that people like it.

There's been a DOS attack against the site and its database. The admins said they were going to move over to CloudFlare for DDoS protection and yeah, I just checked, they're getting served by CloudFlare now. Instability issues should go away.

Use a different instance. That one is overloaded. Honestly I think they should close sign ups for a while.

I bailed on them for now and made an account on a much smaller instance so everything loads again. Thankfully with federation you can still see all the same content, you just need to set up subscriptions again on the new account if you choose to go that route.
- I suggested joining a new instance in another support thread.
  For some reason, even though it's the whole philosophy behind federated networking, people didn't like the idea.
  Is the mentality here degrading to levels of Reddit fanboy-ism? If so, I'm DEFINITELY gonna migrate
  
  I was really surprised by this too but yeah, people want to be on the same largest instance. I guess it's a community feeling by doing that. Or at least a feeling of safety, since it's unlikely the instance shuts down.
- I got a few new people on my instance that specifically said they wanted a smaller instance while Lemmy.world had issues.
  I think there are like 1100+ instances now. No reason to hang out on the largest one unless you absolutely have to.
  Once you have two or more accounts, it's just a click in the mobile client (Jerboa, Liftoff etc) to switch profiles. Takes a second.
  You will have to set up your subscriptions to communities again though on a new account. That can be annoying but kind of worth it.
  
  My list of blocked porn communities is more than double my list of subscribed communities; reblocking would be the biggest pill.
- That's been one of the biggest drawbacks for me personally. Who wants to go through collecting all of these communities, just to have the server crash and be forced to re-collect on a different instance? It's very cumbersome, right now, and I hope that eventually it can be a bit more seamless somehow.
  
  There are tools available to migrate accounts, like this one for example: https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate
  But it has some limitations like your private messages will not be transferred. Also, I never tried this so don't complain to me if something goes wrong :)

@PutangInaMo The instance is likely down. Luckily you can set up an alternate account on an alternate fediverse platform and browse your communities like nothing happened. That's what I did.
The fediverse is so awesome.

https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/
This site was showing lemmy.world was down.
- That is a handy site

I have also been having issues with lemmy.world on Memmy
- Memmy could have an issue with the push notifications. I contacted the devs about this earlier today. Other than that, if the site is down you will have problems no matter which app you're using.

No clue. But, thank you for unlocking a decade old memory of a Tagalog phrase I didn’t know I still knew.

http://lemmy-status.org/
- Is there a status page for the status page?
  
  https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/lemmy-status.org

Putangina mo!
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lemmy.ml is also experiencing issues. both sites seems to have login disabled for almost 24 hours now. if they’re experiencing a DDoS attack, that would finally explain why.

Was down this morning for me

Just checking if this works as I've not been able to comment recently.

I load Lemmy in Thunder and web browser and I sometimes say your username everytime I see Cloudflare error, JSON error, or some other BS like "DNS_PROBE_POSSIBLE"
I hope we won't often see these intermittent errors in the future as they upgrade more at the back end and on the hardware.

Putangina mo!

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