• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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      Kbin.social has y’all beat in the downed website department. Every click is a gamble on whether or not you’ll get an error page.

    • summerof69@lemm.ee
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      If we’re comparing services run by enthusiasts to a service run by a commercial company, then I’d like to add my five cents: at least lemm.ee is much more stable than reddit.com.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      Lemmy can’t go down.

      There will always be a server running somewhere.

      But your instance could be down.

    • lemmyng@lemmy.ca
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      To be fair though, the chance that every Lemmy instance goes down at the same time is so much lower than Reddit going down. Sure, my instance might be unavailable, but I’d be able to hop onto the next one and continue.

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        Considering the distributed nature of the fediverse, the only way I could imagine the entire thing going down is either a botched update that everyone somehow manages to install at once, or a very sophisticated distributed attack.

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          The latter would be the most realistic as someone could find a way to poison the ActivityPub protocol or there’s a bug in it and then a message would go to all servers simultaneously.

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      I was just thinking this should be a “First time?” meme instead. It feels like there’s always one instance down.

      But it’s nice that Lemmy as a whole is never down, just individual pieces.

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      Across all the federated nodes? I’d take that competition, that’s the point of the fediverse after all

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        What’s really cool is that content isn’t lost. As soon as those nodes come back, they get to fast-forward through all those queued updates.

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          What happens if the instance which hosts the community is down but other instances are online? I just made a post to a community on an instance that doesn’t exist anymore, but will other instances get that post, or is it reliant on the instance which hosts the community coming back online?

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            That post will only exist on your instance. Federation out to other instances would have to happen via the instance that community is on.

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            You may think of the community as down in that case, but overall the service is more resilient than a single community.

  • Juice88@lemmy.world
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    I had no idea lol I’m tempted to delete that account entirely but I do use it here and there for tech support

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        with all the Linux people here you can’t get answers? I would think if there is anything lemmy would be great at it would be that. I can see googling Reddit archives but you don’t need the app for that.

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    That’s the face I made about a week into trading Reddit participation in for Lemmy participation or just break-from-social-media time. Conversations feel more genuine, there’s less overbearing moderation (at least in my experience), and if there’s nothing new on Lemmy I’ve probably spent enough time reading forums anyways. I’m only keeping my 13-year-old Reddit account to keep track of old favorited posts and specialist forums like specific video game tips.

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      I can’t agree with you more. I have save posts, and niche subs (but I’m not active, I’d just hate to lose them). And on Lemmy I’ve never seen a thread with deleted comments only. There are less comments here, less people, but quality people.

      My only problem is that all and every topic will be about politics or linux. While I’m all for being stuck in a little linux bubble, I hate the politics here. Some dislike the linux topics as well.

      I miss niche communities, but the switch was well worth it.

    • papalonian@lemmy.world
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      No dude, this is Lemmy, where the most interesting thing to talk about it how we’re not on Reddit.

      Not that I think about it, it’s kinda like how Redditors used to circle jerk over not being on 9gag or iFunny.