There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

Stinkywinks ,

Why are people attacking a msg board?

Wiz ,

Because there’s a very small chance one of the message board users might click on a link and get scammed for money?

Stinkywinks ,

Not sure if people dumb enough to click mystery links and hand Nigerian princes bit coin use these boards, but gl i guess lol

Pandemic100 ,

Never underestimate stupidity. You’ll always be surprised.

Wiz ,

If you spam 1000 links, and 2% of people are really dumb, that’s 20 suckers to steal from.

That pond always has fish in it!

kevtav ,

sh.itjust.works to the rescue

Jakeroxs ,

Yuh

SamC ,

Or find a smaller instance. If everyone joins a bigger instance it’s just moving the problem

Boinketh ,

I think we’ll be good if everyone splits up relatively evenly between the top 10-20 instances.

YaksDC ,

I would love to try a new instance but then I have to recreate a rather large block list.

Is there a way to copy your block list from one instance to another?

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

github.com/CMahaff/lasim

YaksDC ,

Thank you!

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

You are welcome!

timou ,

And for a CLI version, there’s lemmy_migrate.

Blackmist ,

Feels like this should be a core part of Lemmy, like just export and import a big string of data.

MrFusion ,

Well this is truly amazing. Thank you, Blaze

RatzChatsubo ,

You would think we all learned our lesson once Vlemmy broke

Candelestine ,

It’s been this way for weeks, actually. I haven’t seen a graph of the uptime, but I’m sure one would look extremely ugly, based on my own user experience.

This right here is an alt, and despite the fact that I don’t prefer to comment from it, since I won’t necessarily check in soon to see replies, it’s seeing some heavy use.

The attacks a few weeks ago weren’t a one-off, they never stopped. It seems down maybe half the time or so?

One of the many ways we (all of Lemmy) are not quite ready for the mainstream yet, we still have basic technical/security issues to resolve. Soon, though.

cokane_88 ,
@cokane_88@lemmy.world avatar

96.4 uptime

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

Isn’t it 88 based on their own status page? lemmy-status.org/endpoints/_lemmy-world

Candelestine ,

If either of those figures is actually accurate from an end-user standpoint, then the entire downtime must be coming during my primary periods of usage.

berg ,

Both are quite high (ex. 88% is 43 days a year, ~3hrs daily rounded up)

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

As you’re probably based in Canada, that might be it. I’m in Europe and usually their downtime happens during our nights

cokane_88 ,
@cokane_88@lemmy.world avatar

The last 7 days yeah. I was looking here lemmy-world.statuspage.io

96.3 now.

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

88% on weekly basis lemmy-status.org/endpoints/_lemmy-world

Very_Bad_Janet ,

You can also create an alt on kbin and subscribe to Lemmy communities there. I'm posting this from kbin.social.

Zengen ,

They want to put out the fire. Let us show them the strength of the Hydra. Cut off one head and a thousand more shall take its place. We all remember what happened when they tried to end the piratebay.

jerrimu ,

I need another instance so I can lurk when this happens.

Nighed ,
@Nighed@sffa.community avatar

If it’s just for lurking, look for a small one to help spread the load.

Try the one I’m on if your into sci-fi or fantasy

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

Hey, good to see you here! I always like your posts on !fantasy

Nighed ,
@Nighed@sffa.community avatar

I’m mostly in the Cosmere communities, I need to read more books before I can contribute elsewhere!

there1snospoon ,

Life before Death, Radiant.

KazuyaDarklight ,

Strength before weakness. Journey before destination.

CheshireSnake , (edited )
@CheshireSnake@lemdit.com avatar

+1 to this. Imho it’s not good for lemmy as a whole if people are concentrated on a few large instances. Any time one of those major instances experience issues, the effect is going be major.

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

Have a look at here to know how to find one: sopuli.xyz/comment/1603292

OverfedRaccoon ,

That’s why I created this lemm.ee account. It seemed silly just waiting for lemmy.world to come back up all the time. That’s the beauty of the Fediverse. 😁

ijeff ,
@ijeff@lemdro.id avatar

Performance is also overall better via other instances. We were hesitant about migrating /r/android given the LW downtimes but ended up doing so when Cole offered us a place on lemdro.id. Awesome uptime and great performance thus far with his scaling solution - keeps costs low as well.

The more decentralized, the better!

OverfedRaccoon ,

That was definitely a controversial move. 😂

I think it’s “easier” when you first come to Lemmy (or similar) to join the biggest server with all the communities. Being able to interact with communities everywhere, despite where your home instance is, takes some time to conceptualize. I actually think Lemmy has been easier to understand with that than, say, Mastodon.

ijeff ,
@ijeff@lemdro.id avatar

Ideally this will be addressed by improved community discovery functionality in the apps and Lemmy-UI so folks don’t need to really think about it.

I agree Lemmy is easier than Mastodon.

Countmacula ,

I decided to make on on Lemm.ee. Seems pretty cool!

transistor ,
@transistor@lemdro.id avatar

Just another day…

Dasnap ,
@Dasnap@lemmy.world avatar

Are they suffering DDOS attacks? They might need something like Cloudflare to combat this. Maybe some kind of reverse-proxy if the attack isn’t super massive.

p0ppe ,

Already running Cloudflare.

https://i.imgur.com/8xXGhdd.jpg

Dasnap ,
@Dasnap@lemmy.world avatar

Ah shite.

ThirdWorldOrder ,

“Always Online” ™️

President_Pyrus ,
@President_Pyrus@feddit.dk avatar

That doesn’t really work for logged in users though, right?

L3s ,

The current issue is actually an ongoing DB issue. It’s not solely affecting LW.

Annoyed_Crabby ,

Yes. My instance will sometime have unusual high load and it will overload the cpu unless restarted. 0.18.3 doesn’t seems to fix it, and it only affect some instance but not all. It’s hard to pinpoint what cause the loop to happen.

wntrcrs ,

Yeah I am gonna try out a few different ones and see how it goes. Luckily its decentralized to an extent so I can just use my list of written down communities

Eddie ,

Check this out.

timou ,

Well, I just created two alt accounts on sh.itjust.works and jlai.lu, copying my subscriptions with lemmy_migrate. Not too difficult, but we definitely need a simpler way to login into different servers…

Camus ,
@Camus@jlai.lu avatar

Bienvenue!

timou ,

Merci 😁 Plus on est de fous… jlailu va peut-être devenir mon main en fait.

Camus ,
@Camus@jlai.lu avatar

100% d’uptime, ça ne s’invente pas

AndreyAsimow ,

It’s getting really annoying. Is there an mobile friendly way to migrate my account from lemmy.world to lemmy.zip?

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

Hello,

Hm, I’m afraid at this moment the most common solution is github.com/CMahaff/lasim, which requires a computer. Would you be able to get access to one at some point later?

AndreyAsimow ,

I have access to my work MacBook. Would that work?

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

I’m not an expert in Rust, but I guess it should!

CMahaff ,

LASIM author here - it should! Though Mac OS X is the one platform I can’t test on myself - I can build it through Github, and everything I did should be cross-platform, but I can’t actually launch it myself to make sure everything is working fine.

Only other thing might be if their work Macbook imposes any restrictions on running arbitrary binaries from the internet - which it understandably might.

Zak8022 ,

Ooh, I didn’t know about this, thank you. I’ve primarily been using kbin, but this sounds like a good tool to bookmark for the future.

danielton ,
@danielton@outpost.zeuslink.net avatar

Unfortunately, I don’t think there is anything on mobile yet. The best tool for this is LASIM on desktop.

AndreyAsimow ,

Thanks! Gonna have to find some way to get to a PC or Mac.

QuazarOmega ,

If you’re on Android you can use Termux to run lemmy_migrate, it’s a Python script

Decoy321 ,

You can always have multiple accounts

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

I guess the issue is to importing the huge list of blocked instances to the new account

Decoy321 ,

I’ll concede, that’s a legitimately useful timesaver.

AndreyAsimow ,

Yes, exactly. Blocked and subscribed as well

Marcbmann ,

Why do you block instances? Sorry, new here

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

Because I have no interest in them, or they are NSFW and don’t tag properly, or they are duplicates with ones I already follow (technology communities are a good example)

skankhunt42 ,
@skankhunt42@lemmy.ca avatar

I personally follow all the technology communities and just show new subscribed content on my main page. Some content is the same but there’s a lot of different posts too.

It kind of sucks that there’s several sub’s with a lot of people but then again, that’s the point, right?

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

You do you, I just prefer to block them, as long as we are both happy, that’s what matters!

Sanctus ,

Hi from my alt. I just have like 4 alt accounts I switch between.

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

Same here, even a bit more I think

TooLazyDidntName ,

Its really unfortunate. Im working on setting up my own personal instance right now. Im really grateful for all the work Lemmy.world has done, but im just getting tired of not being able to use Lemmy maybe 1/8th of the time I open the app.

Just a +1 for decentralized social media. The fact that I can just set up my own instance when im not 100% happy with the one im currently on is awesome.

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

Enjoy!

laughingm0n ,
@laughingm0n@lemmyhub.com avatar

Right, and thats the issue. I host an instance but we only have a few users. Our instance does run very very well though because we don’t get a ton of user traffic.

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