Just in case anyone is using their account here to post to off-instance communities: those posts and comments seem to have a very high failure rate. There is a lot of activity and accounts on this instance. This is to raise awareness, not to pull people away or break up the lemmyverse. Quite the opposite really: there is a technical problem on this instance that might be preventing the lemmyverse from functioning as it should.

  • mashhitmyself@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Fair enough. Keep in mind, being popular doesn’t magically bestow the knowledge, resources, or willingness to handle issues.

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      1 year ago

      Good point. Nothing against the larger instance owners of course. If my little instance got super popular somehow (like being recommended in guides on how to join lemmy/kbin), and thousands of users got in per day, I could see issues happening just like this. I don’t know the ins and outs of tuning this software for performance at scale, and I know I couldn’t learn it fast enough if my instance faced very fast growth like lemmy.world has.

      I think admins are going to need to turn registrations off periodically, as they scale their hardware (and their knowledge) to run it for more users effectively.