Nah, the servers are practically on fire right now with increased load. I joined a bit over a week ago, and you'd get timeout notifications once or twice a day. Now it's all day every day. Hopefully this is reddit's final hug of death.
it's not just jerboa, the whole community is struggling with the influx. Give it space and time to normalise and adjust. It's frustrating, but worth sticking around for
That might be a lemmy.world problem, I also have an account there and it's extremely slow. Other instances seem to be handling the user load better, for the time being.