I just realized that none of the comments or posts I made in the last week from my instance are getting to lemmy.world.

I went to see if I my instance was defederated. No, still showing as connected.

I then went to see if I got blocked or banned. Nope, my username is not showing up in the modlog anywhere.

Is it because my instance is small? I guess not, because I can interact with people and communities from anywhere else just fine.

At the moment, the only plausible explanation I have is that lemmy.world is overwhelmed and dropping messages from smaller instances. They do however everything in their power to keep more users coming up.

Yeah, I get that they were being attacked. I can only imagine that getting DDOS’d is not fun, and worrying about the Schmoes on the smaller instances is not a top concern.

But even in the middle of these constant outages and attacks, the lemmy.world admins are still keeping registrations open? Why? Wouldn’t it be better if they encouraged the users to move out of the instance to reduce the load? Isn’t the whole point of decentralized technologies to be, you know, decentralized?

I shouldn’t have to come here, create an account and make things even more centralized just so that I can tell people that this attitude is hurting the fediverse.

I wouldn’t be so pissed at this if it weren’t for the fact that some many communities were created here and is making this particular instance a crucial part of the fediverse, but the admins seems to be more worried about getting their user count up than the health of the overall system.

Please, admins, the more you go with this unstable federation and open registrations, the more of an incentive you are creating to centralize this further here. Help the fediverse and help yourselves. Close down registrations and focus on ensuring that everyone can access the communities that are being formed here.

  • Antik 👾@lemmy.worldEnglish
    542·
    1 year ago

    Instead of mentioning your instance so we can help you you seem to have other motives.

    Edit: but if you want the logic. We had discussions internally as well as with other instance admins about this and the conclusion was - even from other instance admins - that closing registrations would be a bad idea. Currently a lot of people are sent to lemmy.world from reddit and 3rd party apps for example. If people land here and are not able to register they might not look into it further and give up because it is too complicated or overwhelming. So that would actually be worse for the fediverse. That is why we want to make the sign up page more informative and provide options.

    • youarehurtingthefediverse@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      126·
      1 year ago

      If people land here and are not able to register they might not look into it further and give up because

      Sorry, that’s a really bad excuse. Lemmy allows to have custom messages/taglines on the registration page, why not just add a quick paragraph saying “registration is closed because this server is overwhelmed, but here is a list of servers that you can use”.

      Make it a rotating list, change it every 2-3 days if you want.

      • Chozo@kbin.social
        41·
        1 year ago

        I get the feeling that you’ve never been in charge of UX before. What you’re suggesting would be an absolutely terrible user experience. You have to realize that not everybody is as interested in new things as you or I might be, so even the smallest of hurdles will be prohibitive for most users.

        • Antik 👾@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          1 year ago

          So he just wants us to close and leave them in the dark, right?

          This is being handled by a team that knows what they are doing. Together with someone that contributes to Lemmy.

        • Antik 👾@lemmy.worldEnglish
          25·
          1 year ago

          It’s the attacks. The amount of users or communities is not the problem but there are people who want us to close down (registrations) for a variety of reasons.

      • Antik 👾@lemmy.worldEnglish
        171·
        1 year ago

        So are you here to make us close registrations or do you want help with your problem?

        • youarehurtingthefediverse@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          314·
          1 year ago

          I’m also here to expose bad excuses.

          As for help, @Wander@yiffit.net has pointed me to the right direction, and he didn’t need to know my instance to do so…

          • Antik 👾@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            1 year ago

            Well he didn’t implement IP bans on his instance I bet. The reason I asked for this information is so I could check if your IP ended up on our banlist or check if it was marked as inactive.

          • blightbow@kbin.social
            112·
            1 year ago

            I’m also here to expose bad excuses.

            Not being able to help someone who is refusing to provide technical detail is a pretty damn good excuse in this industry.

            If your goal is to expose the bad excuses of others, step one is to put in as much effort as you’re expecting from others. :P

            Edit for good measure: (links fixed, forgot about direct linking comments from outside of a lemmy instance)

            • Your instance was not federating with lemmy.world. [1]
            • You assumed that the blame had to rest on lemmy.world because you had “eliminate[d] all the possibilities [you] had at hand”. [2]
            • You made this post to vent about a bunch of unrelated nonsense and refused to provide technical detail that would assist the admins in troubleshooting. It’s a given fact that your privacy is your choice, but it’s also a given that you shouldn’t be a dick about it if you choose to withhold details, even from PM. For the record, the information being requested was the bare minimum for an instance administrator to troubleshoot network interactions with a remote instance.
            • A random (but cool) third party identified the issue with your instance not federating. [3]
            • Instead of apologizing, you proceeded to act like you were entitled to that solution from the admins you wrongly accused. [4] You are not god’s gift to the internet and they are not technical support for your instance.

            There’s no room for niceties here, you are either an asshole in denial or some brat who is too young to know any better. Sleep on it. Come to terms with that fact and make good on it, or don’t. You aren’t worth anyone’s energy, and I’m only bothering with this summary for everyone else’s sake. Your problem is fixed, it was never on lemmy.world’s side to begin with, and somehow you are still acting like the failure of the admins to figure out what was busted with your shit is some Sherlock gotcha moment.

            I am unaffiliated with lemmy.world and my toxicity does not represent the opinions of the admins. (but they’re probably thinking it)

    • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
      9·
      1 year ago

      Perfectly fair. People coming from Reddit specifically need to be eased into the fediverse and saying “whoops sorry we’re full / closed” isn’t great.

      Ideally if we want things balanced people should be on multiple instances but I’d rather several slower, bigger instances in the meantime until the community expands.

      Cheers for the work you guys do!