The well known lemmy.world instance has been down for a while now.
Looks that way. Wonder Lemmy will ever become popular enough if they can’t keep it up.
That’s exactly why decentralisation is good.
Yeah but it’s a lot of users to lose, many people will be too lazy to join another instance
Losing the communities would have an interesting effect though
This is why as a community, we should’ve never allowed things to centralise on LW in the first place.
That’s not how networks work. Emergent properties scale with size. You simply can not have kinds of communities the fediverse expects without also creating the problem of centralization. There were extensive discussions around this about two years ago, but it’s a fundamental design limitation right now.
That depends almost entirely on the instance. Lemmy.ml is the one that the Lemmy devs use for beta testing, and yet it’s still more reliable than many.
AFAIK, all Lemmy instances run on a shoestring budget, because there’s no revenue model. There’s only self-funding out of personal passion and possibly donations, and five nines is expensive.
Possible hosting problem? Sharkey.world is down too
I feel a great disturbance in the Fediverse, as if a thousand Blue MAGAs cried out in pain and were suddenly silenced.
Imagine calling anyone blue MAGA.
Just tried opening the home page and appears active for me. Maybe routing issues for specific regions?
oh no
