Well, don’t flock to the same servers all the time. Check out join-lemmy.org or one of the other instance lists. My instance (social.fossware.space) still has plenty of space. 😅
I can’t post or comment anything on lemmy.world this morning.
I hope the admins upgrade the servers. :/
The admins on many instances already went through an upgrade cycle about two weeks ago to account for the first influx of ex-redditors.
Some of them may already be at their maximum ability/affordability.
I think others in the thread are correct that moving to different instances will probably help reduce some of the overhead that’s slowing things down for many.
Lemmy’s would benefit from scaling horizontally (more instances) instead of vertically (bigger instances)
Not necessarily. New users gravitate towards established, large instances, such as lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. Expanding horizontally would just create a few laggy and overflowing instances, and a bunch of tiny instances no one uses.
And once the devs can’t maintain server costs, they should shut down new registrations.
There’s no need to charge for servers
I remember when I joined Reddit during the great Digg migration. Lemmy is handling this way better than Reddit handled that, so… Score.
The software industry has gotten so much better at designing and operating web apps that can scale quickly.
I can’t post or comment anything on lemmy.world this morning.
*Failure to post. May be risking double-post. I guess lemmy.ml is struggling too. Lol
More people need to learn what federation means instead of just saying “oh resdit2.0” and signing up for the flagship server.
This is where the Fediverse gets tested. Without a big corporate budget to bring extra servers online on a whim, balancing load during rushes is going to be difficult.
Then again, Reddit servers went down a lot and they’re big and corporate.
This is my fetish 😅
I also love it when my servers are overloaded with new content and users looking just to have fun and relax for a change. Or choke my girl whatever.
I can feel the choking🥴
Well that’s the reason I didn’t create a lemmy account on popular instances 😆
Apparantly, I don’t exist on some instances. And a comment I submitted earlier didn’t federate. Does anyone see this comment?
What was that?! Must have been the wind…
No? :)
I can see your comment (lemmy.world). Might be a bug, or the influx of new users causing lags in some instances.
test since apparently my instance can only receive?>>
no choking here
Beat The Wenus
I hope people won’t get scared away from Lemmy just because of server issues, all this traffic means there are lots of new users coming in and I wish they all stay.
Lemmy reminds me in a big way of the internet in 2000s, things are still being set up and figured out. It’s going to be a while till there’s a reliable and polished experience and that’s actually a good thing. It takes time to build something great and there’s a lot of a learning curve.
Patience is a good thing to practice now and hopefully the new user base can find the great things we’ve seen with Lemmy and have some patience as things stabilize.
