• CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Rightfully so.

    Lemmy servers are hosted by just some people that often don’t even accept donations, shoulder the entire legal liability and are sys admin all together by themselves.

    And then there is the clownshow reddit being a gigantic company and not even able to not be a gigantic shitshow.

  • edric@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’m actually seeing more and more .world users getting pissed as the downtimes become more frequent now.

  • primalanimist@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    Same reason I am here. I had two small communities for my interests there, but it was down so often that I decided to move here AND move my communities. This place seems a lot more stable. That’s really the downside of huge servers on lemmy IMO. If communities centralize on one server, whenever that one server is down, so are the communities for everyone.

    I would totally run my own server but I’m not tech enough. I have spare hardware, and I have a 1GB fiber connection, but I am not a network security expert, so I am afraid my home IP address would be targeted and disrupt my house Internet in general. Even if I don’t allow others to create account or communities on my server, I still feel like it’s a risk for me because I am not skilled enough to deal with threats.

  • The_Worst@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    IF you want to switch to an alternative instance use the tool Lasim to synchronize your accounts: synchronize subscriptions, settings and/or blocks. Tool is available for Windows, Linux and MacOs.

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      Interesting, thanks for sharing. Is that info publicly available?

      LW is currently down (for me, at least) and I’m curious if it tends to happen at the same time every day.

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        1 year ago

        From the sidebar of the main page of lemmy.world, so :

        That 76% was 2 hours ago, now at 74%

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      Lemmy.world is run by the same people as mastodon.world. I guess a lot of users from mastodon.world went to Lemmy.world and the rest was word of mouth.

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        I think the name does a lot of heavy lifting in regards to pulling in new users. It sounds more official or general because of the world part.

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          Yeah, people just want a “generic” place because they generally don’t want to be pidgeon holed. I have nice and inoffensive lemmy.world and lemmy.today accounts because of this. I’m basically a vanilla NPC in my life and “sh.itjust.works” is simply too spicy!