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Lemmy.world seems down (feddit.it)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
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The well known lemmy.world instance has been down for a while now.

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[–] 6 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Looks that way. Wonder Lemmy will ever become popular enough if they can't keep it up.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    That's exactly why decentralisation is good.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    Yeah but it's a lot of users to lose, many people will be too lazy to join another instance

    Losing the communities would have an interesting effect though

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    This is why as a community, we should've never allowed things to centralise on LW in the first place.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    That's not how networks work. Emergent properties scale with size. You simply can not have kinds of communities the fediverse expects without also creating the problem of centralization. There were extensive discussions around this about two years ago, but it's a fundamental design limitation right now.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    I think we saw the worst case already when lemm.ee shut itself down. Some communities moved to other instances. Some lemm.ee content still lives on in the database “cache” of other instances and is accessible.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    That depends almost entirely on the instance. Lemmy.ml is the one that the Lemmy devs use for beta testing, and yet it’s still more reliable than many.

    AFAIK, all Lemmy instances run on a shoestring budget, because there’s no revenue model. There’s only self-funding out of personal passion and possibly donations, and five nines is expensive.

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