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Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

As always, previous comment/post in a similar situation: sopuli.xyz/comment/1603292

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

Status page: lemmy-status.org/endpoints/_lemmy-world

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!

sj_zero ,

We're not allowed to have nice things.

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

Thankfully, other instances are still up and allow us to talk about it.

Back in the days, when Reddit or Twitter were down, it was down for the whole userbase.

sj_zero ,

Yes, and we can do something about our own instances. Depending on your reverse proxy there's a couple options.

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

Definitely!

TheBestUsername ,

how? I just use Sync for Lemmy and it seems like everything is down when lemmy.world is. I don’t really know how Lemmy works, or where different things I subscribe to are based.

Illecors ,

Your account is on lemmy.world, so it fails to get any and all data. Accounts on other instances can interact with historic data.

SlopppyEngineer ,

You have to think of lemmy.world as your lemmy provider. Just like with e-mail you have your own email provider from the ISP, or gmail, or … If your own provider is down, you can’t receive or send mails, but all other people can send mails to each other. It’s the same with lemmy, but then for reading posts and send comments to that instance/provider.

TheBestUsername ,

Perfect. This makes sense, thank you.

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

Have a look at this comment: sopuli.xyz/comment/1603292

TheBat ,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

Nice things cost money and I don’t have it. So, checks out.

lemmyporn ,

The company running lw are asking for free unpaid 150k+a year admin work.

Fuck them. Someone run this personally and start a non profit.

sj_zero ,

Lots of options besides the one instance.

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

And it’s back up again! Kudos to the team!

jacktherippah ,

Down again it seems. People seriously need to switch away from lemmy.world. Every single time it goes down so much content goes down with it. It’s annoying.

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

It’s working now. Indeed, I hope they will.

wazoobonkerbrain ,

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    SlopppyEngineer ,

    Because they’re on lemdro.id as lemmy provider, not lemmy.world. That’s the @ part in the user name.

    dmtalon ,

    I did this early on after realizing my mistake, promptly moved to vlemmy.net which after a couple weeks went totally mia.

    Moved again… It’s a toss-up though. I want an instance big enough to stay updated, and have an active community, but not turn into .world or vlemmy.

    Blaze OP ,
    @Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

    You should be safe on infosec.pub, jerry is a great admin

    dmtalon ,

    Here’s to hoping!! I also worked with infosec group at my previous employer a lot and really grew to appreciate that field so I felt like a good fit !

    Blaze OP ,
    @Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

    That’s great!

    Fish ,

    I recommend people move away from Lemmy.world. Having ~28% of Lemmy users on a single instance is not good for the health of Lemmy overall.

    For those that want to move to a different instance, here is a link to Lemmy instances sorted by user count: fedidb.org/software/lemmy

    Infernal_pizza ,
    @Infernal_pizza@lemmy.world avatar

    Is there an easy way to move all my subscriptions over?

    MrRazamataz ,

    There is a python script: github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate

    or a program with a GUI: github.com/CMahaff/lasim/releases

    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.

    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!

    ekZepp ,
    @ekZepp@lemmy.world avatar

    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/33d3351b-431e-47db-8ffe-15dbd3f61875.jpeg

    Blaze OP ,
    @Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

    Seems down again lemmy-status.org

    Blaze ,

    Seems down again lemmy-status.org, testing if I can see this comment from other instances

    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

    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!

    laughingm0n ,
    @laughingm0n@lemmyhub.com avatar

    This is why we need users to spread to more servers and create communities in them. If lemmy.world goes down that shouldn’t result in half of lemmyhub disappearing.

    BarrelAgedBoredom ,

    Commenting on your comment not because I expect you to have them or anything, it’s just the top comment so hopefully someone sees this. I know there’s a handful of links out there to browse instances. Are there any that can see who’s defederated with who/ which instances are federated with the most instances? I had another account on a .ml domain instance but they got purged with a bunch of others a couple of weeks ago. I use my lemmy.world account because it has the most-ish reach for finding new communities and whatnot

    Blaze OP ,
    @Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

    You can have a look at my comment here: sopuli.xyz/comment/1603292

    Usually lemmy.fediverse.observer/list is a good resource

    BarrelAgedBoredom ,

    Sweet, thanks!

    Blaze OP ,
    @Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

    You are welcome!

    laughingm0n ,
    @laughingm0n@lemmyhub.com avatar

    Currently no, there isn’t a way to see that granular of detail. On my instance I have details about any defederated (blocked) instances. Currently there are none.

    But there are pros and cons of joining smaller server. Since mine is small we don’t see a large list of communities, I make a point to go through and subscribe to a bunch everyday so my users can get the best experience. But without others doing some of the leg work it can be challenging. Bigger instances like lemmy.world have “seeded” with communities all over because of their large user base. Not only does lemmy.world have a ton of communities but their users have subscribed to communities outside the instance making it discoverable to others.

    lemmyverse.netbrowse.feddit.de

    MBM ,

    Unless you want to see porn or troll instances, I don’t think there’s a big difference between instances except for the fact that beehaw isn’t federated with lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works

    fraydabson ,

    Yes! I tried with a niche topic like fallout but can’t get people to move over from the Lemmy world community.

    JudahBenHur ,

    was there already a fallout community on lemmy.world?

    fraydabson ,

    Yeah. Very inactive so I shouldn’t be surprised no one came to mine on sopuli.xyz

    Coelacanth ,
    @Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

    Did you advertise it on the New Communities community?

    Valmond ,

    Where’s that? :-)

    Coelacanth ,
    @Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

    !newcommunities

    can ,

    !newcommunities

    Die4Ever ,

    Ironic that it’s on lemmy.world lol

    fraydabson ,

    I did not. Forgot about that.

    Also strange is that Lemmy never notified me of your message. Haven’t had that happen before I don’t think.

    JudahBenHur ,

    Right… I guess for me I’m not sure it’s all that productive to start multiple communities on the same topic? I dunno, maybe it’s good. If I’m looking for something specific, like, say turntables, and I search lemmy for a turntable community, I’m not sure it’d be a good thing to find 3-4 different lemmy communities on the topic. Perhaps I’m just thinking in older, outdated, reddit kind of thinking though.

    fraydabson ,

    Yeah I get it. My goal was since the Lemmy world community was pretty inactive if I can post more to encourage activity on mine I can make mine more active and the defacto community which helps get people off of Lemmy world.

    If it were a community that is highly active on Lemmy world then I understand it doesn’t seem productive to re create active communities.

    I have heard other people voice opinions that having multiple of the same communities over different instances is a good thing with how Lemmy works. I do wish we had a federated community so as people make more communities on different instances it more merges them into one so if one instance goes down the others are still keeping the community alive. But idk if that’s possible or on the Lemmy roadmap.

    can ,

    Pat a link I’ll subscribe

    fraydabson ,

    Let’s see if I do this right. !fallout

    Skoobie ,
    @Skoobie@lemmy.world avatar

    Glad I’m realizing this before getting too attached to any one account. Setting up on a few instances now.

    laughingm0n ,
    @laughingm0n@lemmyhub.com avatar

    Getting attached to any account is not recommended. Hopefully most are pretty set but I know personally if I was too run into financial trouble I would shut it down. Bigger instances do get some amount of patrons who donate to them.

    can , (edited )

    There are tools to migrate subs/blocks

    korbelix ,

    Any recommendations? Would love to sync my lemmy.world subs to some other accounts

    QuazarOmega ,

    This is one: github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate

    June ,

    I’m more of a commenter and less of a poster, but I moved away from world as my primary instance last week. Part to spread the load, part to just be able to browse.

    jeffhykin ,

    There’s a posposal for an automatic user distribution system (original post here: lemm.ee/post/2800726). Showing support for it would be a big help!

    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.

    jasnstu ,

    lemmy.world status according to this thread

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