Things have been incredibly unstable there. Until things stabilise, they should force the traffic elsewhere.
I agree. Wants the point of a decentralised platform if most of it’s users are on a single instance.
Plus it’s not a good look from a new users perspective if the platform appears down every few hours.
Wants the point of a decentralised platform if most of it’s users are on a single instance.
It’s so that users have a choice of joining different instances. If .world is particularly well managed and provides amenities for users and has the capacity, there’s no reason that new users shouldn’t join.
The junk communities in every instance are a problem.
It clearly doesn’t have the capacity and until certain pull requests are merged, the capacity for an instance is ~2000 users, world is way over that.
This can’t be true. Lemmy world is over 100k users now. And it depends on how many are active.
But yes, it would be very beneficial to the entire lemmy network if many more instances could grow and get active communities. Right now it’s like every community is from Lemmy.world or Lemmy.ml. It’s stupid.
Edit: And I just checked out lemmy.world local… There are tons of posts that doesnt even federate to other instances. So the stability problems are pretty much affecting the entire fediverse now since they are so big.
Look at Lemmy world local using Voyager:
Which is why it keeps dropping. The way Lemmy is designed, a bunch of stuff is kept in memory. Like loading a post with a lot of comments spikes the CPU and memory, A LOT A LOT. Things are of course improving rapidly, but until fixes like that and the federation queue land, it’s easy to bring a server so over capacity to its knees.
As I understand it, Lemmy.world’s maintainer wants to own the biggest Lemmy server ever, just like they own one of the biggest Mastodon servers. It’s a feature, not a bug.
You are welcome to go to another instance to reduce lemmy.world load.
I don’t think you understand how the fediverse works of you think that solves the problem - lemmy.world being unstable effects its ability to federate properly with other instances
Badly managed popular instances unfortunately affects the whole fediverse
