It does but huge props to the people who keep it running day to day.
this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2025
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Is there a donation page anywhere?
Side bar on the main page, under "donations". I'm posting a screenshot instead of a donation link so you know I'm not scamming... Plus there's multiple ways to donate.
Edit: the target accounts/links I looked at a few weeks ago are under "mastodon.world" but go to the same place. There's an explanation of why but I forget which page I read it on
Edit X2: the explanation is on the patreon blog post : https://www.patreon.com/posts/welcome-lemmy-84892927
Luckily the Fediverse runs on a field of potatoes, rather than just a single spud like the other place.
True.
Unfortunately most of the content is on lemmy.world right now
But not your account, and not this community, and not the person you replied to, and not me, and not the other person who replied to you -> those are all 5 different things involving 5 different instances.
The centralization effect is really nowhere near as bad as it used to be.
But as always if we want something different, we have to create it. If there is content that you want to see hosted elsewhere, create a community to hold it!? Bonus: PieFed innately combines all comments across all cross-posts together, as well as combines several communities together into Topic/Feeds, both of which greatly helps the decentralization efforts by helping avoid smaller communities getting lost and ignored. Even if Lemmy were planning something similar, its pace of development moves forward so slowly that it might be literally years before you get one or both of those, but perhaps with it being seen to be so popular in PieFed the devs may choose to prioritize it more highly?
Anyway, Lemmy.World used to have >80% of all Threadiverse users on it, whereas now it is less than half of that, so progress is being made!
But not your account, and not this community, and not the person you replied to, and not me, and not the other person who replied to you -> those are all 5 different things involving 5 different instances.
If LW is down, content posted to LW communities is not going to federate to other instances
True, but this community is not on LW, nor are any of us that are involved in this current thread of comments under the OP. Therefore LW's latest network issues are not even noticed by us - at least not directly, in this situation.
The more that communities move off of LW, the more success stories like that can occur.
Of course a lot of people moved over to Lemm.ee and then it went down, so I am not aiming to be anti-LW here so much as anti-centralization.
Another reminder to decentralize
Well, that is exactly the point of the fediverse. You don't have to have a lemmy.world account to see lemmy.world content. I am not even on lemmy but on piefed, and I see lemmy.world content perfectly fine without any server drag. Runs smooth and fast.
Why would anybody spend money on such an attack? They are behind cloudflare so they wait it out and lemmy is decentralised and keeps going.
Cloudflaren't
I started on LW and quickly moved to Yiffit (and later Pawb) when things started to get bogged down by the number of users flooding a single instance.
AI crawlers ignoring robots.txt and trying to vaccum wisdom of the fediverse?
AFAICT it's often just the default web front-end. Using Voyager to access it is a lot more reliable (not always perfect, but much better), and I suspect (but haven't tested) that one of the alternative web UIs like a.lemmy.world might be more reliable too.
Glad I'm not the only one LMAO
Is it affecting your piefed.world account too, or do you mean your Lemmy.world alt?
Just .world whenever I switch back to it, PFW has been fine
Could have been worse. Could have been loss.