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For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.

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lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by nutomic@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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This site is currently struggling to handle the amount of new users. I have already upgraded the server, but it will go down regardless if half of Reddit tries to join.

However Lemmy is federated software, meaning you can interact seamlessly with communities on other instances like beehaw.org or lemmy.one. The documentation explains in more detail how this works. Use the instance list to find one where you can register. Then use the Community Browser to find interesting communities. Paste the community url into the search field to follow it.

You can help other Reddit refugees by inviting them to the same Lemmy instance where you joined. This way we can spread the load across many different servers. And users with similar interests will end up together on the same instances. Others on the same instance can also automatically see posts from all the communities that you follow.

Edit: If you moderate a large subreddit, do not link your users directly to lemmy.ml in your announcements. That way the server will only go down sooner.

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[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I just tried making an account on beehaw but I'm not able to login, are they having problems as well or do they have some kind of an account screening proccess that just takes awhile?

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[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

At what point do you plan to close this instance to new users?

[–] haunting_tale@wetdry.world 6 points 2 years ago

@nutomic For now I am using my brand new mastodon as backup, but I am thinking of joining kbin as well. So many options!

[–] autisticaudioguy@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I wouldn't mind running my own single user instance, but it seems a little challenging to set up rn. I would love to be able to set one up easily with a rasperry pi or my truenas core server.

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[–] eternaldeiwos@lm.qtt.no 6 points 2 years ago

@nutomic@lemmy.ml what kind of hosting do you guys use for lemmy.ml? At the time of writing it looks like you have around 33k users and around 2k active. What does that look like for resources consumed?

[–] r3nder@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

Thar she blows!

[–] tristanphips@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can someone recommend me a vps service provider that works ideal for a lemmy instance ?

[–] 0xc0ba17@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have the cheapest Hetzner VPS (it's less than 5€/mo iirc), and I run a few self-hosted services on it. I'll try to install Lemmy this week just to see, but I don't doubt it will work without any issue.

I'm probably not going to open it to registrations tho, not really the kind of stuff I want to manage.

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[–] papasfritas@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

is there some kind of status page to have a look at and see how things are going? I cannot make any comments to a specific community at the moment and wondering why

[–] mook@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I applied for behaw about 24 hours ago without response nor success logging in. Wondering if they have temporarily suspended applications?

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[–] pleasemakesense@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Would be really nice if on the instance page you could have some extra information admins could fill in like max capacity and such, think that people would be more inclined to choose other instances if they could see how close the instance is to the approximate member limit

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