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randomguy2323 , (edited )

Its on its infancy and remember this is not run by a big corporation its run by volunteers. If you dont like feel free to go back to reddit.

Edit: Hey guys so yeah this comment was too harsh against newcomers to the platform and I would like to apologize.

hitmyspot ,

While you are correct, your tone is quite dismissive and unwelcoming. If it’s to be a replacement, it’s reliability is relevant. On most of the update posts ive seen, users are generally appreciative of the work done.

thevoyagekayaking ,

Yeah, if it’s a roll of the dice whether the platform will be accessible on any day, people will eventually go somewhere else.

pjhenry1216 ,

But it's the fediverse. I mean, you're still using the platform as we speak.

SocialMediaRefugee ,

Still better than dealing with reddit mods

pjhenry1216 ,

Lemmy.world isn't meant to replace Reddit. The fediverse and various implementations of the ActivityPub protocol are. Lemmy and Kbin appear to be some of the frontrunners, but lemmy.world isn't a lynchpin. Other Lemmy instances are up. And it's a bit naive to expect mostly volunteer servers to have the same uptime as a well-founded corporation. And let's remember, reddit used to go down a lot more early in its life compared to late in life (and it'd still go down then).

Plus, it's still a bit entitled to expect uptime just because they have an intent to provide what they believe is a better service than reddit. It's not only about folks ingesting content, but also those who create and moderate.

It's reliability has been pretty good all things considered.

hitmyspot ,

I don’t disagree, but discussing reliability and access shouldn’t be met with suggestions to leave the community.

It may be entitled to expect uptime for a volunteer service but it’s also entitled of the project as a whole to expect users if the service is not usable.

I’ve had good reliability. My home instance advises when updated are planned and are normally for minutes. The timeline is generally rough estimates, with the caveat that the admin is doing it outside their usual work hours. The users thank them for the update and take an interest.

pjhenry1216 ,

But that's not what the post indicated. You can't ignore the tone of the post and the misconceptions it implies.

And009 ,

You got me in the first half… But then

randomguy2323 ,

I know it was a strong comment but it just that some people want everything so easy to use and I understand that they are busy , have a job , family , etc. Thats why I suggested it to go back to reddit.

spleenfiesta ,
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I was actually scrolling through to see if anyone posted anything about the outage hahaha. Do they make announcement posts to warn about an outage for Lemmy version updates?

favrion OP ,
@favrion@lemmy.ml avatar

Apparently not. I had no warning.

spleenfiesta ,
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At least we got other instances, so we can keep scrolling lol

pjhenry1216 ,

Other comments seem to indicate it's not a planned outage but just the server getting too many hits.

pjhenry1216 ,

https://lemmy-world.statuspage.io/

The closest you'll get.

relyn ,

I think there was a new version of lemmy released so the instance may be in the process of being updated.

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