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lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by nutomic@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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This site is currently struggling to handle the amount of new users. I have already upgraded the server, but it will go down regardless if half of Reddit tries to join.

However Lemmy is federated software, meaning you can interact seamlessly with communities on other instances like beehaw.org or lemmy.one. The documentation explains in more detail how this works. Use the instance list to find one where you can register. Then use the Community Browser to find interesting communities. Paste the community url into the search field to follow it.

You can help other Reddit refugees by inviting them to the same Lemmy instance where you joined. This way we can spread the load across many different servers. And users with similar interests will end up together on the same instances. Others on the same instance can also automatically see posts from all the communities that you follow.

Edit: If you moderate a large subreddit, do not link your users directly to lemmy.ml in your announcements. That way the server will only go down sooner.

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[–] pineapplelover@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

Lol yeah. I learned my lessons from using Matrix.

[–] tristanphips@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can someone recommend me a vps service provider that works ideal for a lemmy instance ?

[–] 0xc0ba17@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have the cheapest Hetzner VPS (it's less than 5€/mo iirc), and I run a few self-hosted services on it. I'll try to install Lemmy this week just to see, but I don't doubt it will work without any issue.

I'm probably not going to open it to registrations tho, not really the kind of stuff I want to manage.

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[–] papasfritas@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

is there some kind of status page to have a look at and see how things are going? I cannot make any comments to a specific community at the moment and wondering why.

EDIT: Figured it out, when I tried to leave a comment via Jerboa I got an error "Language not allowed" and so I selected a language on the desktop site and then my comment went through. Note that this error does not appear on desktop site so I had no idea what was going on and why my comment was not going through

[–] 777@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know what happened but in the last half hour the website has become highly responsive again. Thank you admins for your hard work.

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[–] jeff@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Have already moved - will keep hunting for the best instance for me but appreciate this Digg jr aka reddit killer.

[–] Kris@thebestinstance.com 4 points 1 year ago

Come join us at thebestinstance.com fam!

[–] Faresh@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Sad to hear that. I guess I will wait a bit for it to calm down then, because this has been my favourite instance.

[–] houseband23@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there an API for that returns the instance list is JSON?

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

No but you can generate your own list: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-stats-crawler/

[–] ionhowto@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I use kbin too.

New to this feedverse or how you call it.

Why isn't there one login that can post on all platforms and I have to signup on each separately?

If there is, you're not making it obvious I guess.

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