This week in Lemmy (17-23 July 2023)
It has been another eventful week.
InfinityFree announced that all .ml domains are being returned to the government of Mali
What does this have to do with Lemmy, you ask? Plenty:
- lemmy.ml
- lemmygrad.ml
- lemmy.fmhy.ml
As of writing this, lemmy.fmhy.ml is down and it's unclear what will happen to lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml.
lemmy.fmhy.ml have announced that user data is safe, though changing domain names is a huge pain for re-federation and nobody really knows how that will work yet.
If you are unable to access communities that used to reside on lemmy.fmhy.ml - this is why.
In general, it's a good idea to stay away from country specific TLDs when hosting an instance, epecially if you don't reside in those countries.
lemmy.world and other instances are suffering through continued DoS attacks
This one unfortunately comes with the territory once you reach a certain size. If you've been struggling to reach lemmy.world recently, this is probably why.
Part of the problem is it's possible to overwhelm the Lemmy server through certain user actions, such as account deletion
Fixing this kind of issue will lead to massive performance benefits for large instances and improve resilience.
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