UPDATE: @[email protected] has responded
It is temporary as lemmy.world was cascading duplicates at us and the only way to keep the site up reliably was to temporarily drop them. We’re in the process of adding more hardware to increase RAM, CPU cores and disk space. Once that new hardware is in place we can try turning on the firehose. Until then, please patient.
ORIGINAL POST:
Starting sometime yesterday afternoon it looks like our instance started blocking lemmy.world: https://lemmy.sdf.org/instances
This is kind of a big deal, because 1/3rd of all active users originate there!
Was this decision intentional? If so, could we get some clarification about it? @[email protected]
Heads up: a new backend issue has been opened to track performance degradation: lemmy#3466. Looks like there's also a private matrix channel that sprouted up for performance tuning & troubleshooting that you might potentially be interested in joining: info.