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Lemmy.world holding such a prevalent place in the Lemmy/Kbin part of the Fediverse makes it a major single point of failure.
They should still be the newcomers instance, but communities and users should migrate to other instances to increase the resilience of the Fediverse.
in a weird way it's good that it's failing, I've seen an uptick in signups as people search for other instances
It is not what is called βsingle point of failure β. Usually if βsingle point of failure β fails, the whole thing fails. I am on kbin and experience zero failures.
If they were to actually go down (the current failures do not affect the backend), all of the communities they host wouldn't be usable anymore, taking down a large portion of the Lemmy/Kbin communities.
Only those that are on lemmy.world. There are tons of communities/magazines elsewhere. When lemmy.world goes down, I learn about it from posts. Otherwise, I would not notice.
I created my first account there, which still exists. But on day 3 I created one at another instance, which I have used almost exclusively since.
I wonder how many of their users are actually active.
22k active monthly users
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
Doesn't say much as many of these could have just tried lemmy.world for a few minutes and then discarded the account. Or they could be super active. The statistic doesn't say.
Same here, I created my first account there while simultaneously creating this one on Kbin.social. With all the issues there were with lemmy.world I've decided to use this one for a while instead to see how I like Kbin. It's been pretty nice so far, the only thing that sucks is that I haven't found a good Kbin app for Android yet.
Isn't Artemis in beta?
Seems to be here
It is and I have it installed but it's not fully doing what I want it to do yet. For example, as far as I'm aware I can't log in with my Kbin.social account in the app.
Interesting, I thought it was implemented
I see so many things hosted everywhere, also sh.itjust.works is very big as well.
The uptime on lemmy.world is terrible. https://lemmy-world.statuspage.io currently shows 95% uptime, but it has been "down" from a UX perspective more than half the time I attempted to use it. The uptime reporting is simply not picking up when something is off as much as it should. And they recently added an archive.org proxy for when it goes down... what the heck? I understand that it is run by volunteers and all, but what a buzzkill.
They are been attacked with a DDoS attack for quite some time now. I'm afraid there isn't much they can do.
Reference: https://lemmy.world/post/2923697
now who...
now who what?
The post mentioned unpopular opinions.
I was unpopular 3 months ago