For hours today, yesterday, and intermittently since I’ve been on here (a month or so) lemmy stops loading using jerboa, liftoff, and a web browser.
The site isn’t listed on any down detector I know of, and each app gives different errors but ultimately just won’t load.
It’s often enough that recently when I consider jumping on here I just don’t because there will probably be an issue. Ranging from not loading, JSON errors, or just blank screens and my comments not working…
What’s going on? Is there a status page for these places?
There’s been a DOS attack against the site and its database. The admins said they were going to move over to CloudFlare for DDoS protection and yeah, I just checked, they’re getting served by CloudFlare now. Instability issues should go away.
Use a different instance. That one is overloaded. Honestly I think they should close sign ups for a while.
I bailed on them for now and made an account on a much smaller instance so everything loads again. Thankfully with federation you can still see all the same content, you just need to set up subscriptions again on the new account if you choose to go that route.
I suggested joining a new instance in another support thread.
For some reason, even though it’s the whole philosophy behind federated networking, people didn’t like the idea.
Is the mentality here degrading to levels of Reddit fanboy-ism? If so, I’m DEFINITELY gonna migrate
I was really surprised by this too but yeah, people want to be on the same largest instance. I guess it’s a community feeling by doing that. Or at least a feeling of safety, since it’s unlikely the instance shuts down.
In addition to a large instance being less likely to shut down and (presumably) having more resources, there’s an additional advantage to being on a larger instance: you have a more comprehensive “All” feed. Since federation with a remote feed isn’t established until (IIRC) someone subscribes to it, an instance with a larger user base should contain more subscriptions to a wider variety of content. Of course, not everyone will like that and you lose out on Beehaw content if you’re on the two largest Lemmy instances, but I think it applies in general.
At this point, I don’t believe lemmy.world will shut down. But the constant outages are going to push people away regardless. Luckily people have nearly limitless options of instances to join.
Though, the average schmo just recently coming from Reddit won’t understand “Instances” or “federation”, and just give up on Lemmy as a platform overall once they see how unstable it is. lemmy.world is currently the front-door to the fediverse for a lot of people here.
I got a few new people on my instance that specifically said they wanted a smaller instance while Lemmy.world had issues.
I think there are like 1100+ instances now. No reason to hang out on the largest one unless you absolutely have to.
Once you have two or more accounts, it’s just a click in the mobile client (Jerboa, Liftoff etc) to switch profiles. Takes a second.
You will have to set up your subscriptions to communities again though on a new account. That can be annoying but kind of worth it.
My list of blocked porn communities is more than double my list of subscribed communities; reblocking would be the biggest pill.
I’ve used Lemmy Account Settings Instance Migrator, which migrates your blocked communities and settings as well as your subscriptions. It worked for me, but YMMV as the developer says it’s alpha software.
There are scripts to migrate that for you.
Can you point me in the direction of these scripts?
Sure, look under scripts/ tools
https://static.xtremeownage.com/blog/2023/join-the-fediverse/
I saw someone suggest Connect for Lemmy yesterday, Android app that has both instance blocking and keyword filtering. Overall the app is fine but until I find something I love that supports the filtering it’s more than sufficient.
That’s been one of the biggest drawbacks for me personally. Who wants to go through collecting all of these communities, just to have the server crash and be forced to re-collect on a different instance? It’s very cumbersome, right now, and I hope that eventually it can be a bit more seamless somehow.
@PutangInaMo The instance is likely down. Luckily you can set up an alternate account on an alternate fediverse platform and browse your communities like nothing happened. That’s what I did.
The fediverse is so awesome.
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I’ve used this tool to migrate subscriptions.
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First, edit the .ini file with your lemmy servers, usernames and passwords.
Then make sure you have python interpreter with requests installed. You can check this with
python3 -m pip show requests. if it says something like package not found, you should look into how to install python requests on your operatation system. If you downloaded it from python.org,python3 -m pip install --user requestsshould work.Then you can do
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I bet replacing python3 with py will work:
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Did you try my suggestion in this comment?
https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/1491482
I think your problem is that you aren’t pointing PowerShell at the right folder. You can use the
cdcommand to get to the right folder containing the python script and config file.
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I abandoned lemmy.world for lemm.ee and I gotta say it is way better. No idea how to migrate though.
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I have also been having issues with lemmy.world on Memmy
https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/
This site was showing lemmy.world was down.
That is a handy site
No clue. But, thank you for unlocking a decade old memory of a Tagalog phrase I didn’t know I still knew.
Neat. Bookmarking that for later
Putangina mo!
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Good bot
Hey hey, I referenced this song a few weeks ago. lol
Haha that song had me going wild back in the day, forever changed my usernames.
Was down this morning for me
lemmy.ml is also experiencing issues. both sites seems to have login disabled for almost 24 hours now. if they’re experiencing a DDoS attack, that would finally explain why.
Just checking if this works as I’ve not been able to comment recently.
I load Lemmy in Thunder and web browser and I sometimes say your username everytime I see Cloudflare error, JSON error, or some other BS like “DNS_PROBE_POSSIBLE”
I hope we won’t often see these intermittent errors in the future as they upgrade more at the back end and on the hardware.
Putangina mo!
