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Lemmy.world seems down (feddit.it)

submitted 3 days ago by silver@feddit.it to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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The well known lemmy.world instance has been down for a while now.

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[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah but it's a lot of users to lose, many people will be too lazy to join another instance

Losing the communities would have an interesting effect though

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is why as a community, we should've never allowed things to centralise on LW in the first place.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

That's not how networks work. Emergent properties scale with size. You simply can not have kinds of communities the fediverse expects without also creating the problem of centralization. There were extensive discussions around this about two years ago, but it's a fundamental design limitation right now.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

I think we saw the worst case already when lemm.ee shut itself down. Some communities moved to other instances. Some lemm.ee content still lives on in the database “cache” of other instances and is accessible.