has lemmy.world been going down these past few days or is it the app I use?
has lemmy.world been going down these past few days or is it the app I use?
For hours today, yesterday, and intermittently since I've been on here (a month or so) lemmy stops loading using jerboa, liftoff, and a web browser.
The site isn't listed on any down detector I know of, and each app gives different errors but ultimately just won't load.
It's often enough that recently when I consider jumping on here I just don't because there will probably be an issue. Ranging from not loading, JSON errors, or just blank screens and my comments not working..
What's going on? Is there a status page for these places?
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I bailed on them for now and made an account on a much smaller instance so everything loads again. Thankfully with federation you can still see all the same content, you just need to set up subscriptions again on the new account if you choose to go that route.
I got a few new people on my instance that specifically said they wanted a smaller instance while Lemmy.world had issues.
I think there are like 1100+ instances now. No reason to hang out on the largest one unless you absolutely have to.
Once you have two or more accounts, it's just a click in the mobile client (Jerboa, Liftoff etc) to switch profiles. Takes a second.
You will have to set up your subscriptions to communities again though on a new account. That can be annoying but kind of worth it.
My list of blocked porn communities is more than double my list of subscribed communities; reblocking would be the biggest pill.
I've used Lemmy Account Settings Instance Migrator, which migrates your blocked communities and settings as well as your subscriptions. It worked for me, but YMMV as the developer says it's alpha software.
I saw someone suggest Connect for Lemmy yesterday, Android app that has both instance blocking and keyword filtering. Overall the app is fine but until I find something I love that supports the filtering it's more than sufficient.
There are scripts to migrate that for you.
Can you point me in the direction of these scripts?
Sure, look under scripts/ tools
https://static.xtremeownage.com/blog/2023/join-the-fediverse/
That's been one of the biggest drawbacks for me personally. Who wants to go through collecting all of these communities, just to have the server crash and be forced to re-collect on a different instance? It's very cumbersome, right now, and I hope that eventually it can be a bit more seamless somehow.
There are tools available to migrate accounts, like this one for example: https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate
But it has some limitations like your private messages will not be transferred. Also, I never tried this so don't complain to me if something goes wrong :)