this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2023
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I don't think you understand how a federated system works based on that comment.
If the instance that hosts those communities goes down or struggles to stay afloat won't it struggle to federate its content outside its own network?
If I join another instance and lemmy.world is down, it's not like I can see the communities on lemmy.world.
Joining another instance as a user doesn't solve the problem that lemmy.world has bad uptime outside of the scope of reducing the load on LW itself
Federation takes almost no server load. It'd all the people loading images and comment threads that cause the server to slow down. Yes federation can break, especially due to unexpected code changes, but typically using a federated, lower user count site helps over all.
So what changed with Lemmy then? A few months back when I joined the ecosystem many instances including LW were unreachable for many hours a day. Joining up to a new instance didn't make LW content appear (as they were offline).
The issues today feel largely the same as a user, though less frequent. Am I misunderstanding?
0.19.1 has a problem that causes higher than expected server load, as illustrated in my first post showing their utilization graphs.
As for a few months ago, "someone" was DDoSing lemmy.world almost constantly but i guess they ran out of money or got bored.