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Why do the instances keep going down? It makes me think that this is not a reliable social network, but the alternatives are not as good.

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[โ€“] grte@lemmy.ca 103 points 2 years ago (15 children)

You're thinking about it the wrong way. Despite a major hub of lemmy being down if you have an account on another instance you can continue using the network nearly as though nothing had happened. Individual instances may have greater or lesser reliability but the social network is very robust.

[โ€“] trashhalo@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If thats how Lemmy should be used it would be helpful if we could identify yourself across servers. Like email has pgp that lets you sign your emails to prove it's really you. Would be cool. ๐Ÿ˜Ž

[โ€“] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

Yeah I think the fediverse biggest limitation in general to achieving most of its stated goals is the fact that accounts are bound tightly to an instance

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