Seems like there’s a lot of instances struggling. Props to all the admins out there fighting to keep their stuff running (and don’t forget to decentralize!)
Finally signed up for another instance cause world went down
This is the way. Users should try to spread themselves out when possible so that any one instance doesn’t get overloaded.
I keep 2 alt accounts (on different instances) in case my main account goes down.
imho this reflects a huge failure of the fediverse. Our accounts shouldn’t be tied to an instance that’s hosting content, they should be on a an auth-only server that only is responsible for managing our identity, separate from the content-servers. Then it would be up to content-servers to decide how much content they want to federate about an identity to show on that user’s profile-page on this particular content-server. Like either federating it right in (hey here’s @Pxtl’s profile/feed scraped from every fediverse server they use directly) or just autogenerating links to their content on other servers (we don’t want to host content from HowToBlowUpAPipelineLemmy.org on Lemmy.world but here’s a link to @Pxtl’s posts there).
Wouldn’t it be cool to have the same identity on Mastodon as on Lemmy?
Then you could continue to participate in the fediverse without creating a new user-account on every server. Of course, the auth servers would still be vulnerable to outage but since they’re lower load and just providing auth they’d be much less vulnerable.
Yeah, I agree. Choosing which instance to be the backup though, was a little hard lol
It’s not, at least in regards to lemmy.world. it’s so generic that it’s easy to find another that has the same rules (ie, very few rules). It’s better to use your backups than not. That’s one of the reasons lemmy.world is down. Folks aren’t spreading out. They’re not taking advantage of the fediverse and are making a single point of failure where there shouldn’t be one.
Usually, I just look at https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list, see which one has a decent amount of monthly users (1m) so that the All feed is still pretty full, and I check how is the ping
Update: http://lemmy-status.org/
Seems quite useful right now
The page loads, but there seems to be an issue with backend. So the status page doesn’t report anything.
It’s been down for two and a half hours at this point. I hope they’re able to resuscitate. Always good to have a side instance.
