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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You could also just have a website that 1. Selects a random instance from the ones currently available and up and 2. Shows all instances and whether they are up or down. This would encourage new users to not all pile on to the same instance.

I'm not very knowledgeable about this stuff (what's a docker? What's a kubernetes? Lol) but I don't think as of right now with Lemmy, kbin, etc you can just throw a bigger single server at the problem. Anyways, that's kinda against the purpose of decentralization anyway. I know you're supposed to pick a server based on what one you like, rules or whatever but right now they're pretty much all equivalent (except lemmygrad, lol)

[–] WhoRoger 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Surely not a random instance. Lots of instances are niche or have more strict requirements on the user, even if they're public.

I'm saying again, there should be a way for instances to better propagate their interests/philosophy/politics/communitues and for the user to pick one based on that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So something similar to http://www.distrochooser.de?

I know that site is specifically about choosing a Linux distro, but the idea is the same.

Answer questions with certain options, it will calculate based on the criteria you fed it, and then it will give a rating list of what instance is the best option for you.

Highest on the list being What met the criteria you provided. Lowest being what did not meet the criteria.

[–] WhoRoger 2 points 1 year ago

No, that's too complicated. We're talking a signup for a web service, that needs to be very simple.

I'd take just a single page with selection of interests. I think some community/multimedia apps already do something like that. Then maybe another page with stuff like "it's fine if I need to wait for approval" or "I can provide an email address" or whatever may be...

But definitely needs to be simple.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

https://join-lemmy.org/instances

Should work for that, they just need to have a good newbie page with a curated selection of generic servers at the top, with a random one selected, maybe based on location?