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.
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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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.
You aren't wrong, but also a lot of the communities I subscribe to aren't on .world so I still have content.
Normally a DDoS would mean I have to go find something else to do!
Yes, it's by far a better situation that the rest of the threadiverse goes on. But, it's definitely a large block of communities over there.
I subscribed 10 on lemmy.ml and 8 on lemmy.world.
lemmy.world is definitely the biggest instance with it’s 126k users, but lemmy.ml with 46k, lemmynsfw with 35k, hexbear with 24k and sh.itjust.works with 22k aren’t small either
Yes, lemmy.world is the biggest, but the next four biggest instances combined have just as many users.
Also the most racist, which is why I left
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.
Sorry
Canadian confirmed, eh.
Effing eh
Screenshot this and attach it as a request for citizenship exception.
It's almost like you can sign up without being from Canada
But nothing would be relevant.
Well, that's because it's in Canada. Nothing relevant ever comes from there except Celine Dion and maple syrup.
Legit though, are you under the assumption that the instance only allows Canadian related communities? There's all kinds of C/s on there that aren't about Canada. And that doesn't matter with lemmy (much) in the first place. It only matters if you exclusively want to use the local feed. Your subscriptions feed doesn't have to be from that instance, and the all feed gives you access to anything anyone there has access to. As soon as you search for a community, the whole instance gets access to it via federation. I figure you're joking, but just in case you weren't, what instance you're from doesn't limit your feeds to a significant degree (usually).
I wasn't joking, but I didn't want to feel like I was intruding as a stupid American.
Canadians are Americans too.
I mean a USA American, the stereotypical jingo.
I dig that for sure!
Afaik, they don't mind at all. I know there's a ton of American users there as it is, so if they mind, they're not minding out loud lol
My final decision is no. I'll stay out of their business.
Nothing wrong with that :)
Yes, some of the bigger communities there are [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]. And none of these are Canada-specific. I guess I have to follow [email protected] now 😀
Man how many alts do you have ha ha. Everytime I see your username it's a different domain
It's the same username for each instance. Does nobody else do that?
I do the same to be honest
No … my alts always have different names. But they are for things I don’t want others to know.
Isn't the whole point of federation that you don't need multiple accounts or pay attention to multiple sites?
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
@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
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
Given that they preemptively defederated from hexbear, yeah I'd say you're right
I know they were going to start using Cloudflare, which will handle DDOS among other things. Not sure if they have started yet.
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