2y ago

Why is Lemmy World gone now?

Did they give up?

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It's up (and fast) for me rn. They have been getting DDOS'd in a way specifically targeted for sites running Lemmy. Lemmy is still beta software so hopefully this can be a growing experience for the greater Fediverse. The .world admins are some of the most capable out there.
- It's amazing how federation makes it so those of us on different instances don't even notice when .world gets DDOS'd
  
  Well, a lot of the communities are hosted on world. I know they make the biggest single contribution to my federation ingress. So, I mean you will kinda notice a bit of a content drought if they're down long enough.
- Also the most racist, which is why I left
  
  Can you provide an example?
Aaaand... it's gone.
Now it's back.
Now it's gone.
This is why I have a lemmy.ca login too.
- Too bad I'm not Canadian.
  
  We can't all be perfect.
  
  It's almost like you can sign up without being from Canada
  
  Man how many alts do you have ha ha. Everytime I see your username it's a different domain
It's working for me, posting this from lemmy.world
- Same
I doubt they gave up. Probably under attack again.
- I feel bad for the admins. That must be annoying AF.
I am on it right now.
However they have had some issues lately which is detailed in this post
https://lemmy.world/post/2923697
- @thecam This link struggled to load and did so incompletely.
  Here is an archive.org cap someone made yesterday: https://web.archive.org/web/20230809182416/https://lemmy.world/post/2923697
  @favrion
- Great posts. Sounds like the fascists are mad that they don't get access to the largest instance without having to follow it's rules.
  
  Fascists are everywhere on that instance and they preemptively banned the leftist instance from federation. Lemmy.world is easily the most fascist friendly of the major instances
I ended up creating an alt account on lemmy.blahaj.zone because lemmy.tf was down, so now I have two accounts with the same username wirh one as a back up
- It should always be the same username.
  
  This guy Lemmys
- Doesn’t blahaj.zone itself throw errors all the time?
  
  At the time Blahaj worked and tf didnt
I know they were going to start using Cloudflare, which will handle DDOS among other things. Not sure if they have started yet.
https://lemmy-world.statuspage.io/
why does lemmy world do anything?
it's a very unstable instance. I recommend migrating away from it.
- So create more technology communities on different instances? We have the technology for it now.
  !technology@lemmy.today
  I created this one today because we need more, and we need to spread out. If you don't want to join lemmy.today, start a community on your own instance. But spread out.

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