I really don't think we want to get into an uptime competition with Reddit lol
this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2024
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Across all the federated nodes? I'd take that competition, that's the point of the fediverse after all
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.
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?
That post will only exist on your instance. Federation out to other instances would have to happen via the instance that community is on.
You may think of the community as down in that case, but overall the service is more resilient than a single community.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Every time one instance is down, I switch to another. I've never seen it down completely.
...you were saying?
my experience is a bit different. when the instance with your account and subscribed channels is down, it's just not a good experience
!? Future feature request for Lemmies : Backup and restore subscriptions to hop fast to another instance in case of downtime.
Sync has this
coolio 👌😎
Unless every instance goes down we will just call it a partial outage.
I think lemmy.world beats reddit. And it's one of the worst offenders.
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.
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.
Not installing the app to check lol
I can confirm.
I mean, I'm on Mbin, but still though, lol
Why do you have the app?
Fedora Linux IT support for obscure things that break and other Linux and Windows subs because I kinda like to see what boneheaded mistake Microsoft will make next
That's why god invented lemmit.online.
Because unfortunately some things just didn't transfer. /r/anime equivalents are dead as fuck. Same with game subreddits. Tv subreddits. Anything properly discussion based.
Lemmy is great for face value mindless reddit scrolling but let's not pretend it's some great dialogue for the vast majority of posts where people just want to share hobby interests vs shit post or politic post.
Punctuation: you think of it as optional spice, but the rest of us think of it as required fencing.
That one time lemmy isn't down
Lemmy can't go down.
There will always be a server running somewhere.
But your instance could be down.
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.
Love lemm.ee
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.
Did Spez pull a Musk stunt?
I had no idea lol I’m tempted to delete that account entirely but I do use it here and there for tech support
Same because the Fedora Linux subbreddit helps a lot for general odd stuff that happens
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.
What's a shiddit?
Weird. I got a message that my account was temp locked for "unusual activity."