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Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it's actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that's really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

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[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 82 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.world holding such a prevalent place in the Lemmy/Kbin part of the Fediverse makes it a major single point of failure.

They should still be the newcomers instance, but communities and users should migrate to other instances to increase the resilience of the Fediverse.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 26 points 1 year ago

in a weird way it's good that it's failing, I've seen an uptick in signups as people search for other instances

[-] redballooon@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I created my first account there, which still exists. But on day 3 I created one at another instance, which I have used almost exclusively since.

I wonder how many of their users are actually active.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago
[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Doesn't say much as many of these could have just tried lemmy.world for a few minutes and then discarded the account. Or they could be super active. The statistic doesn't say.

[-] coyootje@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Same here, I created my first account there while simultaneously creating this one on Kbin.social. With all the issues there were with lemmy.world I've decided to use this one for a while instead to see how I like Kbin. It's been pretty nice so far, the only thing that sucks is that I haven't found a good Kbin app for Android yet.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago
[-] coyootje@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

It is and I have it installed but it's not fully doing what I want it to do yet. For example, as far as I'm aware I can't log in with my Kbin.social account in the app.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago

Interesting, I thought it was implemented

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

It is not what is called “single point of failure “. Usually if “single point of failure “ fails, the whole thing fails. I am on kbin and experience zero failures.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago

If they were to actually go down (the current failures do not affect the backend), all of the communities they host wouldn't be usable anymore, taking down a large portion of the Lemmy/Kbin communities.

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Only those that are on lemmy.world. There are tons of communities/magazines elsewhere. When lemmy.world goes down, I learn about it from posts. Otherwise, I would not notice.

[-] Synthead@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

The uptime on lemmy.world is terrible. https://lemmy-world.statuspage.io currently shows 95% uptime, but it has been "down" from a UX perspective more than half the time I attempted to use it. The uptime reporting is simply not picking up when something is off as much as it should. And they recently added an archive.org proxy for when it goes down... what the heck? I understand that it is run by volunteers and all, but what a buzzkill.

[-] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They are been attacked with a DDoS attack for quite some time now. I'm afraid there isn't much they can do.

Reference: https://lemmy.world/post/2923697

I see so many things hosted everywhere, also sh.itjust.works is very big as well.

[-] caron@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

The post mentioned unpopular opinions.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I was unpopular 3 months ago

this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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