When you notice Lemmy is quieter than usual, then have a look at the Lemmy.world status

This is why we need users to spread to more servers and create communities in them. If lemmy.world goes down that shouldn't result in half of lemmyhub disappearing.

And it's back up again! Kudos to the team!

We're not allowed to have nice things.

It's been this way for weeks, actually. I haven't seen a graph of the uptime, but I'm sure one would look extremely ugly, based on my own user experience.

This right here is an alt, and despite the fact that I don't prefer to comment from it, since I won't necessarily check in soon to see replies, it's seeing some heavy use.

The attacks a few weeks ago weren't a one-off, they never stopped. It seems down maybe half the time or so?

One of the many ways we (all of Lemmy) are not quite ready for the mainstream yet, we still have basic technical/security issues to resolve. Soon, though.

What does not kill you, makes you stronger. The only thing these script kiddies are doing is strength training the world admins.

Its really unfortunate. Im working on setting up my own personal instance right now. Im really grateful for all the work Lemmy.world has done, but im just getting tired of not being able to use Lemmy maybe 1/8th of the time I open the app.

Just a +1 for decentralized social media. The fact that I can just set up my own instance when im not 100% happy with the one im currently on is awesome.

Are they suffering DDOS attacks? They might need something like Cloudflare to combat this. Maybe some kind of reverse-proxy if the attack isn't super massive.

I think lemmy.world is too large for the health of the fediverse. A nasty incident which takes it down permanently could "kill" Lemmy as a whole. Perhaps a sign up stop is in order.

sh.itjust.works to the rescue

It's getting really annoying. Is there an mobile friendly way to migrate my account from lemmy.world to lemmy.zip?

lemmy.world has been so unstable for that I decided to switch to another instance. That's the beauty of the Fediverse though.
I setup my own Uptime Kuma Monitor for lemmy.world just for fun.. the statistics are crazy

Status page: https://lemmy-status.org/endpoints/_lemmy-world

Hopefully more will join smaller instances.

It was always going to happen but an instance being the defacto default for Lemmy is a bad thing.

There really needs to be a tool to help people pick an instance, but even then people would just flock to the general instances like .world anyway

Those guys can't catch a break. By whom or why are they getting attacked anyway?

They want to put out the fire. Let us show them the strength of the Hydra. Cut off one head and a thousand more shall take its place. We all remember what happened when they tried to end the piratebay.

Why are people attacking a msg board?

I need another instance so I can lurk when this happens.

Yeah who are these fucks? Whats their damage? Somebody oughta go knock some sense into them

I would love to try a new instance but then I have to recreate a rather large block list.

Is there a way to copy your block list from one instance to another?

Exactly for that reason I have created a second account on lemm.ee.

There is even a nice Python script to propagate your subscriptions and block lists to one or more other accounts.

Find it here: https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate

Hi from my alt. I just have like 4 alt accounts I switch between.

You can also create an alt on kbin and subscribe to Lemmy communities there. I'm posting this from kbin.social.

Lemmy.world Is down, but Lemmy as a whole is still up and running. This is why I like the fediverse

Seems down again https://lemmy-status.org/, testing if I can see this comment from other instances

They are doing their best, but the users can help by spreading out to smaller instances. It's also much better for the fediverse as a whole to have many smaller instances instead of a few giant ones.

Maybe you want to join http://lemmy.today? It's located in Oregon (western USA) and is literally never down. I know since I'm addicted to Lemmy and I'm on it all the time now... :)

Also who doesnt like that cute little Lemmy icon it has. :) Looks like a very surprised lemming, or very happy one...

Yeah I am gonna try out a few different ones and see how it goes. Luckily its decentralized to an extent so I can just use my list of written down communities

Seems down again https://lemmy-status.org/

Oohhh, that is why sometimes browsing to world gives me cuckflare error.

Just another day..

lemmy.world status according to this thread

Well, I just created two alt accounts on sh.itjust.works and jlai.lu, copying my subscriptions with lemmy_migrate. Not too difficult, but we definitely need a simpler way to login into different servers...

As always, previous comment/post in a similar situation: https://sopuli.xyz/comment/1603292

@automodbeta@lemmy.world

You would think we all learned our lesson once Vlemmy broke