Why is Lemmy World down?

You're thinking about it the wrong way. Despite a major hub of lemmy being down if you have an account on another instance you can continue using the network nearly as though nothing had happened. Individual instances may have greater or lesser reliability but the social network is very robust.

Lemmy is still alpha software, thrust into the limelight by the fall of Reddit. It is still in its infancy. Reddit has had over 18 years to get it right. So it will take some time.

Lemmy.world is super big AND being attacked constantly. Smaller instances don't have these issues and they are stable and fast. You can still subscribe to everything from Lemmy.world and your instance will remain up even when Lemmy.world is down.

I'm on lemmy.today and it's fast and stable. Come join us and you will see.

Basically use the fediverse the way it was meant to be used.

I think there was a new version of lemmy released so the instance may be in the process of being updated.

I've started a 2nd account on another instance just for situations like that.

The Lemmy.world server runs on a 16mhz 386dx and has 16mb of ram. It just does that sometimes.

It's definitely bad if you can't use a service you'd like to use but one has to remember that this isn't run by someone with millions of dollars at their fingertips. And the reason for that is simple: This service doesn't exploit it's users.

https://lemmy-world.statuspage.io/

They're working on it.

Its on its infancy and remember this is not run by a big corporation its run by volunteers. If you dont like feel free to go back to reddit.

Edit: Hey guys so yeah this comment was too harsh against newcomers to the platform and I would like to apologize.

I've tried refreshing lemmy.world and Cloudflare blocked me:

I'm officially a bot now I guess.

Edit: But more on the topic, they have been plagued by DDoS attacks recently so my guess is it's more of the same.

Edit edit:

This might be of interest: https://lemmy-status.org/

I was actually scrolling through to see if anyone posted anything about the outage hahaha. Do they make announcement posts to warn about an outage for Lemmy version updates?

Lemmy.one is down too. That’s where all my subscriptions are :(

Same for lemmy.one the past few days. I set up a kbin account to keep going. :(

Maybe we should just sticky this post 😫

Is this a rhetorical question?

Hooray, it's back.

I’m talking out of my ass, but software devs rarely think about scalability, backup, and high availability.