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[โ€“] RoyalEngineering@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

At least the mall of Reddit is open 24/7.

That new mom and pop down the road seems to close at random times during the day. ๐Ÿ˜‰

[โ€“] uis@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can use less overpopulated server

[โ€“] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

The instance I use is ran by a bunch of Unix nerds, so I'd expect them to wear their uptime as a badge of honour. I suspect there's probably a sweet spot for instance size, where it doesn't hit the biggest scaling problems, but big enough to justify the ongoing effort, rather than obviously being a one-man shop that will vanish when his cheque to Digital Ocean bounces.

[โ€“] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is lemmy.world really that bad?

Lemmy.ca went out, like, twice in the time I've used it.

[โ€“] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

As a .world user, it's had some instability. Though in general I'd say it has okay uptime for a somewhat startup, volunteer enthusiast run content aggregation & discussion platform.

[โ€“] applejacks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is, loads for me about 70% of the time.

Very annoying to use.

[โ€“] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's making you stay on lemmy.world?

[โ€“] applejacks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

already have an account, don't want to go through the hassle of transferring it and recreating my subscriptions

[โ€“] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

There are tools to easily migrate your account now. It's pretty effortless.

[โ€“] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ahhh, defending reddit because lemmy.world is the target of constant ddos attacks? Just go to a different instance. Lemmy's not closed. A single entrance is just being blocked by assholes who support billionaire-owned platforms.

[โ€“] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

It's like a mall where the main entrance is closed for construction, but all the other entrances, including the entrances through different stores, are all open.