Ugh.

  • ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee
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    Move to a new, smaller, instance. You can still use lemmy.world as though it was still running at full speed. You can still post to lemmy.world or other federated communities and you experience won’t be so painful.

    Lemmy.world is experiencing an influx of Redditors and with us good Redditors come our awful trolls. Growth, along with DDoS attacks have plagued the site since I began using it.

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      And if the thought of setting up another account annoys you, I’ve made a tool that will migrate your account settings, subscriptions, and blocks: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

      Now that does require the source instance to be up long enough to download your profile, but after that you can upload to any instance you want and be running like nothing changed in like 2 minutes.

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      Tbh, I kinda like that we have these growing pains. Helps folks leave out older expectations of monolithic profit-oriented social platforms. And actually put some money down to help host the specific niche community they really want to exist.

      I’ll probably eat these words later but, as of this moment, I stand by it.

      • Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee
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        Yeah, this is the fediverse’s way of telling us to break our old habit of piling on a single site and to spread out.

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          Except…it’s being DDOS’d, so no, it isn’t.

          If anything this is basically establishing to everyone out there that if you want to kill an instance or encourage people to move to a different one (with different admins who might have different…“styles”), just DDOS it and promote your alternative instance as a refuge.

          I’m sticking with .world because the admins there are chill. Don’t feel like rolling the dice on a new instance where some power mods probably set up shop.

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      I wish people would stop using this advice without some caveats. The instance you choose is also about the admins your choosing to have your account under.

      I’ll stay on Lemmy.world because I trust the admin there. Any time you jump to a new instance, you better hope it’s run by levelheaded, fair-minded people.

      • remkit@lemmy.kya.moe
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        You don’t have to jump to tiny < 100 user instances though, any instance within the top 10 is a good alternative to lemmy.world. If everyone thinks the same as you do, then there would be no point in federation.

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            Y’know what, you’re right, but in an ideal federated world, it is probably for the best if people branch out further than just the top 10 as well. The instance I’m on probably is not even within the top 50, but it’s fast, performant, and has all my subscriptions. Not sure about the admins, but I also have alts on lemm.ee and sh.itjust.works in case this instance goes bust.

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
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      Yeah. There is little reason to sign up on the biggest server since you can see and interact with content from any of the servers.

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        There’s plenty of reason for a new user, but otherwise agreed. Big instances are training wheels… I say from the biggest kbin instance.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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      along with DDoS attacks

      Is lemmy.world getting DDoSed? Who would profit from that? (honest question. I hadn’t read this before.)

      • velxundussa@sh.itjust.works
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        DDoS are sometimes just people thinking “because I can”, not necessarily motivated by profit.

        A smallish scale service like a lemmy server ran by volunteers seems like an easy target, so it wouldn’t be surprising that being the case.