I’ve noticed since yesterday, which I assume is when the reddit diaspora reached the biggest wave (until the 30th that is), that both lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml have these long periods of 404 errors when fetching posts, even though the rest of the website works fine.

But when looking at the instances that have grown a lot too, like beehaw, they seem to be working fine and can even fetch the posts straight from lemmy.ml. Is there any place we can get up to date with the technical situation of lemmygrad (or other instances for that matter), specially when the site is inaccessible?

Also, where could one get started in contributing to the project (both the whole thing or just this instance) as a relatively competent programmer?