It's up (and fast) for me rn. They have been getting DDOS'd in a way specifically targeted for sites running Lemmy. Lemmy is still beta software so hopefully this can be a growing experience for the greater Fediverse. The .world admins are some of the most capable out there.
It's amazing how federation makes it so those of us on different instances don't even notice when .world gets DDOS'd
Well, a lot of the communities are hosted on world. I know they make the biggest single contribution to my federation ingress. So, I mean you will kinda notice a bit of a content drought if they're down long enough.
You aren't wrong, but also a lot of the communities I subscribe to aren't on .world so I still have content.
Normally a DDoS would mean I have to go find something else to do!
Yes, it's by far a better situation that the rest of the threadiverse goes on. But, it's definitely a large block of communities over there.
I subscribed 10 on lemmy.ml and 8 on lemmy.world.
lemmy.world is definitely the biggest instance with it’s 126k users, but lemmy.ml with 46k, lemmynsfw with 35k, hexbear with 24k and sh.itjust.works with 22k aren’t small either
Yes, lemmy.world is the biggest, but the next four biggest instances combined have just as many users.
You can literally just go to .world and read some of the comments in the biggest subs, and see for yourself
Well, that's because it's in Canada. Nothing relevant ever comes from there except Celine Dion and maple syrup.
Legit though, are you under the assumption that the instance only allows Canadian related communities? There's all kinds of C/s on there that aren't about Canada. And that doesn't matter with lemmy (much) in the first place. It only matters if you exclusively want to use the local feed. Your subscriptions feed doesn't have to be from that instance, and the all feed gives you access to anything anyone there has access to. As soon as you search for a community, the whole instance gets access to it via federation. I figure you're joking, but just in case you weren't, what instance you're from doesn't limit your feeds to a significant degree (usually).
I dig that for sure!
Afaik, they don't mind at all. I know there's a ton of American users there as it is, so if they mind, they're not minding out loud lol
Yes, some of the bigger communities there are !pcgaming@lemmy.ca, !til@lemmy.ca, !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca, !lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca, !bicycles@lemmy.ca, !trippinthroughtime@lemmy.ca, !traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@lemmy.ca, !plex@lemmy.ca and !shittyfoodporn@lemmy.ca. And none of these are Canada-specific. I guess I have to follow !fediverselore@lemmy.ca now 😀
No … my alts always have different names. But they are for things I don’t want others to know.
Isn't the whole point of federation that you don't need multiple accounts or pay attention to multiple sites?
I am on it right now.
However they have had some issues lately which is detailed in this post
@thecam This link struggled to load and did so incompletely.
Here is an archive.org cap someone made yesterday: https://web.archive.org/web/20230809182416/https://lemmy.world/post/2923697
Great posts. Sounds like the fascists are mad that they don't get access to the largest instance without having to follow it's rules.
Fascists are everywhere on that instance and they preemptively banned the leftist instance from federation. Lemmy.world is easily the most fascist friendly of the major instances
I know they were going to start using Cloudflare, which will handle DDOS among other things. Not sure if they have started yet.
I ended up creating an alt account on lemmy.blahaj.zone because lemmy.tf was down, so now I have two accounts with the same username wirh one as a back up
why does lemmy world do anything?
it's a very unstable instance. I recommend migrating away from it.
So create more technology communities on different instances? We have the technology for it now.
I created this one today because we need more, and we need to spread out. If you don't want to join lemmy.today, start a community on your own instance. But spread out.