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Actually it seems to only be affecting old.reddit.com if im seeing the errors correctly. main site is up? Its very spotty.

I wonder if this is the time it’ll never go back up.

Its up now. Cause you looked :D /s

I didn’t look, but apparently I did jinx it. Soz.


I’ll have to take your word for it.




I check a few subreddits per week for infotainment, where I learned that this is related to their anti-bot algorithm over-policing. Swapping between new and old a few times allows you to stay on old




Wish it would stay down


It needs to be burnt to the ground. Nobody should be on Reddit.



The world is healing.


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Guess what's not down, because it's impossible for it to go down. That's right, Lemmy.

Sort of

If Lemmy.world has an issue it affects 90% of users

That's definitely true. And community moderators should consider at least trying to move their communities to smaller servers. Now that they've got some bigger subscriber numbers.



Not really. There are multiple instances which limits the chance. I assume some are able to access reddit too. Also, I've had more unreliability with Lemmy as its small servers and the code has often required restarts to fix issues.

Lemmy is fallible, just like anything else.

What I mean is that since Lemmy is decentralized, the entire network can never be down. A few instances can be down, and your particular instance can be down, but the entirety of the network can never be down.

The entire network can be down. Its just harder as there is some built in redundancy. I'm sure reddit also has built in redundancy.

When my local instance is down, I use my alternate. Its much worse as its not as curated. Sure, there are apps to help sync them now but my instance is now reliable enough that inhavmt bothered.

I think it's important to be realistic in the capabilities of Lemmy in looking at competing services.





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