Lemmy.World Announcements @lemmy.world itadakimasu @lemmy.world 1y ago

Annnnnnd lemmy.ml is down. For me at least. Anyone else?

Getting

404: FetchError: invalid json response body at http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/site

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Yup it isn't working, but the amazing thing? I can still write this post and you can still read it even though lemmy.ml is down currently.
- How does that work? Is it because you're on a different instance? I'm genuinely curious, I am still trying to use my smooth little brain to understand how this federation thing works.
  
  Yes we are all on different instances that don't involve lemmy.ml. It takes time to understand and some aspects can be overwhelming, but the value becomes clear especially in situations like this.
- I just wanted to verify something. If an instance goes down, what happens to the communities created in that instance? Might be a stupid question, but I'm still not 100% I get how this all works.
  
  All hosted & federated posts are still archived by the instances that recieved them but the community obvsiously can't accept new federated posts & comments until/if it goes live again. We should have archiver accounts/bots on important communities to not lose knowledge created on those communities, it's like adding a voice recorder to a telephone line - you keep what you record.
  
  They're gone basically.
Was looking on the join servers page hours ago and didn't even see it listed. Beehaw was the most popular, no lemmy.ml in sight.
- there was some consensus to remove lemmy.ml from recommended based both on its load and its politics
  
  Huh is there some controversy with its politics? I haven’t heard of that yet!
At a guess they're deploying new backend code.
Looks like they're back up now.
More instances have been doing that. Let's wait it out
I'm not on Lemmy but kbin and it's been like that here as well, and from what I understand it's due to a mass of users from reddit slowing everything down and setting off ddos protections.
- hey so regarding Kbin, I tried it, I got super lost. I can use Lemmy alright, very easy, but on Kbin I don't know how to browse either local or global "magazines". Do you know where these buttons are? lol.
Probably updating or something.
Yup. I wonder when they'll halt registrations.
Still down? I'm getting error 502. Also, subscribed to some communities yesterday and I'm still getting "Subcribe Pending".

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