It seems like they are down for a longer time now. How will they recover? Does longer down mean they will have to do more catching up with other instances? Can I get updates somewhere?

  • fen@shork.onlineEnglish
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    2 years ago

    This is a fantastic point. I watched several migration waves from Twitter to the Mastodon/*oma/*key network over the course of Nov-Feb and each became less impactful as instances and developers understood better how that traffic would flow. Consider also that those platforms had also been around for a few years already.

    Lemmy and kbin are very, very young still, so it will be great to see them develop over the course of the coming months. I expect the next couple weeks leading to the June 30 3PA closures on Reddit will be spent preparing for another wave.

    • SuitedUpDev@feddit.nlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Oh definitely that the next couple of weeks will be spent preparing for a new wave. I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the reason why Lemmy.ml was down. Yes I know that it was because of a server migration but, that server migration also didn’t happen for no reason ;-)

      The first migration wave to Mastodon was very bad. I still remember, that following a person was nearly impossible. Not to mention the fact that, even if you could follow someone, it didn’t automatically meant their messages ended up in your feed.

      I know for example that version 0.17.4 of Lemmy (that was released 2 days ago) already has some database optimizations.