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.

I’m not sure the ‘like email’ thing helps. Email is confusing and not what most people use to connect with others. I don’t know anyone who met via email.

In my experience it at least helps in the sense that, when people ask “why are there more then 1 site?” ? And up to a certain degree you use that to explain the concept of federating.

In theory, I agree with you! A 100%, but the problem is that currently Lemmy doesn’t support migrating your profile to a different server. So that already slightly complicates things. So from the get-go they are forced to make choice. A choice which isn’t clear, what potential consequences are and the fact they currently easily migrate to a different server, obviously doesn’t help.

“Like email” is basically the same description I’ve been using to explain it to non-tech people.

Long story short, onboarding needs to get better. But that also applies for other Fediverse projects (like Mastodon or Friendica).

I just also tried this from the EU (NL to be exact). The moment I disable IPv6 it works, if I re-enable it, my OS prefers to pick IPv6 over IPv4 and thus I get a 502 error again.

After doing a WHOIS, it appears that Lemmy.ml is hosted on OVHCloud.

Edit:

As follow up on that, OVH cloud does appear to be doing some maintenance on their infrastructure: https://www.status-ovhcloud.com/

In short, yes it will take longer to “catch up”.

The longer answer, be patient. This is an issue that will be resolved. I’m sure that the admins are doing their best to get the instance up & running ASAP.

From my experience during the great Twitter migration to Mastodon, you saw the same thing. Especially the “main instance(s)”, mastodon.online and mastodon.social in this case, were overloaded to the brim. After a day or two, the sysadmins and developers were able to stabilize the instance.

The sysadmins in this case were responsible to keep the servers up and running (and scale up where needed). The developers because their code has been “battle tested” for this level of interaction. So changes were needed, to optimize and squash bugs.

I hope this helps 😊

Very very likely that they will get defederated in a day. Most people will most likely interpret it as a Meta’s way of gathering more data.

Tbh, I totally forgot that Ohanian left Reddit like 10 years ago 🤦

Oh sweet, sweet irony.

Dude, that looks great! Awesome job!

I think it would be awesome, if you can get this merged into the UI of Lemmy! That way all users (not just the ones that know about this) can benefit from it.

Thank you! Subscribed 😄

😂

Reddit’s hug of death before we let it die…

It’s almost poetic.

Yeah most likely. All the servers are currently smoking.

Thanks! I just updated to the latest version as well and my god, that’s finicky to get right.

Same! Even tho I am not even affiliated with the project.

Perfect! Thank you 😊

Can you share with the rest of us here ? If other people have the same issue, then people can find it and not create duplicate bug reports.

And touching the text (or title) of a comment doesn’t reveal the bar below the comment ?

I just went over the changelog in the release, it doesn’t mention that change anywhere. Except expanding the tappable area for a comment. See https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/pull/436. Maybe it’s a bug ? You can always fill a bug report at the Github page.

Changelog: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/releases/tag/0.0.33

For a while I thought “fire Spez”, but after giving it some more thought…

NOTHING! and I’ll elaborate on why. The community of people makes or breaks social media platforms (see, Twitter as prime example). If the owner(s) aren’t interested in the well being of the community / communities, then I have no interest in being there.