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Lemmy.ml and beehaw.org getting hammered with traffic because of spez ama (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by henry@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Both were down for me before, they seem to be up right now but just made this account on Lemmy.blahaj.zone (Henry is the name of my actual blahaj lol). It's probably because of the traffic influx from reddit refugees from the absolutely disastrous spez ama (where he doubles down on everything and doesn't apologize at all). Allegedly they're trying to suppress Lemmy mentions but I guess it's not working well enough lol

A good problem to have although long term we're going to have to figure out how to deal with these spikes in traffic.

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[–] SeeleLowe@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you tell me more about the pros and cons of running your own instance? Why did you choose to do that? I'm new at this so I'm very intrigued.

[–] anji@lemmy.anji.nl 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Of course. Here's a quick one:

Pros:

You don't depend on anyone else's funds or time
Always available and snappy no matter how busy some parts of the Fediverse get
You choose who to federate with. Want to talk to both puppy-lovers and puppy-haters? No problem.
It's a social media account you really, in every sense of the word, own. Nobody can take it away from you. The lemmy.ml admins could accept the billions* they're surely being offered right now for their instance, but my account is still mine.

Cons:

Hosting costs some money, knowledge, and time.
Unless you subscribe to specific communities (or people, in the cast of Mastodon) those posts will never reach your server. So you don't really have a "Federated" timeline

*I'm joking about the billions. Probably.

[–] SeeleLowe@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Thanks for that response. Is there an easy way to start an instance?

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[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unless you subscribe to specific communities (or people, in the cast of Mastodon) those posts will never reach your server. So you don’t really have a “Federated” timeline

This seems like a pretty serious flaw in the federation protocol. Hope it's fixed at some point.

[–] anji@lemmy.anji.nl 4 points 1 year ago

The "subscribe & push" model is practically fundamental to ActivityPub. There's pros and cons to this design, but ultimately I think it's confusing and cumbersome for users..

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