The instance has been down several times over the past few days?

Is there some ongoing maintenance, or are we doomed to face the same as feddit.uk?

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    10 months ago

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

    They do a lot to be transparent and monitor availability.

    There is an big usage jump before Xmas, I assume because of the recent lemmy version upgrade that many admins are saying uses more resources.

    Give em some time, I’m sure there will be a patch soon.

    Best part of the fediverse is you can just use a less popular server until things calm down.

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      10 months ago

      I know I could, but many of the communities I follow, are on lemmy.world. So that doesn’t mitigate the issue.

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        10 months ago

        I don’t think you understand how a federated system works based on that comment.

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          If the instance that hosts those communities goes down or struggles to stay afloat won’t it struggle to federate its content outside its own network?

          If I join another instance and lemmy.world is down, it’s not like I can see the communities on lemmy.world.

          Joining another instance as a user doesn’t solve the problem that lemmy.world has bad uptime outside of the scope of reducing the load on LW itself

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            10 months ago

            Federation takes almost no server load. It’d all the people loading images and comment threads that cause the server to slow down. Yes federation can break, especially due to unexpected code changes, but typically using a federated, lower user count site helps over all.

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              10 months ago

              So what changed with Lemmy then? A few months back when I joined the ecosystem many instances including LW were unreachable for many hours a day. Joining up to a new instance didn’t make LW content appear (as they were offline).

              The issues today feel largely the same as a user, though less frequent. Am I misunderstanding?

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                10 months ago

                0.19.1 has a problem that causes higher than expected server load, as illustrated in my first post showing their utilization graphs.

                As for a few months ago, “someone” was DDoSing lemmy.world almost constantly but i guess they ran out of money or got bored.