I’ve been trying to sign up at lemmy.ml for days & it’s not working.

    • maynarkhEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I don’t get why people want to sign up to the “big” instances. Noone is missing out on anything by having a smaller home instance.

      Hell, it’s a better user experience since it’s not overloaded and down half the time.

  • TheFogan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    In short, simply lemmy has been slowly growing by tiny amounts for a year… but it hasn’t gotten nearly ready for major growth. Then reddit of course did the huge things causing lemmy to grow at 10x it’s normal predicted amount, and because it’s especially people from reddit, many of which don’t really understand federation yet. They assumed joining the main instance is the way to do it. (rather than understanding that almost all instances can communicate with eachother).

    In short it’s a perfect storm for excessive growth on too small of a segment. on a network that wasn’t prepared for the sudden increase in demand.