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

I don't know what happened but in the last half hour the website has become highly responsive again. Thank you admins for your hard work.

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[–] papasfritas@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

is there some kind of status page to have a look at and see how things are going? I cannot make any comments to a specific community at the moment and wondering why.

EDIT: Figured it out, when I tried to leave a comment via Jerboa I got an error "Language not allowed" and so I selected a language on the desktop site and then my comment went through. Note that this error does not appear on desktop site so I had no idea what was going on and why my comment was not going through

[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (8 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?

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

What if I wanted to create an instance where upvotes are disabled? Could that be possible? @nutomic

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

Sure if you implement such a feature. Its all open source.

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

hehe just recovered my 3 year old account

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[–] 1337admin@1337lemmy.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Got my instance running earlier today thanks to some helpful people in the Matrix chat. Intention at the time was to have some friends of mine join but I'm not opposed to having signups as well. Long live open source, federated software!

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[–] Faresh@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Sad to hear that. I guess I will wait a bit for it to calm down then, because this has been my favourite instance.

[–] Kris@thebestinstance.com 4 points 2 years ago

Come join us at thebestinstance.com fam!

[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 4 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I run a general purpose, (currently) single-user instance as of yesterday. It will be funded through end of 2023 and then I'll probably beg for donations if I host other users. https://links.dartboard.social

This is hosted on Digital Ocean and I can scale up CPU/RAM/Storage/Bandwidth as needed. (I already did once)

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