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?
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?
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.
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.