But lemmy.world should primarily communicate via lemmy imo…

I find the same attitude holds for developers who like to hang out in real-time Matrix chat and don’t seem to use Lemmy itself very much and things like code blocks ruining greater-than and less-than slip right into release without much concern.

I’ve found there is a culture within Lemmy developers and long-time operators to discuss in Discord or Matrix chat instead of “eating their own dogfood” and using Lemmy itself to openly discuss Lemmy technical and project issues. These chat services are legendary for keeping things away from search engines and newcomers getting up to speed. Lemmy itself isn’t nearly as search-engine friendly as Reddit was traditionally, it seems like feedback needs to be given as to how important it is to keep things about Lemmy in the eyes of those who actually use Lemmy…

Thoughts?

I haven’t tested with 0.18.3 to see if new features were added to front-end lemmy-ui, but based on my experience with earlier 0.18 releases… the “Sign Up” page of Lemmy needs to have a custom message added for each instance basically introducing the instance from the admins. The experience is pretty bad… on my instance I have registration closed and lemmy-ui still just presents “Sign Up” links and even the form. I think it’s pretty important to get this in the back-end now so that the evolving independent front-ends all support the custom message shown above/below the Sign Up form…

Seems like something that shouldn’t take a lot of coding to get added (admin screen has place to create custom messages like “Legal”) that would be a good lemmy network-wide focus on the newcomer experience.

July 30 comments when from 7.1 million to 9.9 million. In a single day?

they are called communities here

lemmy.ml is now getting some lemmy.world content

yha, it said “effectively defedarated” - anyway, I edited out the words entirely so there isn’t any more confusion.

example?

EDIT: Ok, I see a lemmy.ml created a post: https://lemmy.world/post/2463337
So far, I can’t find any new content on lemmy.ml from .world

You can use markdown codes in titles. Bold, italic, and in my case strikethrough. Two tildes before and after the text.

It is back up

Down, “Server error” message for past 20 minutes at least

https://sh.itjust.works/ is returning “Server error” on all pages, not sure how long that has been going on.
apparently over 45 minutes so far: https://lemmy.world/post/1604919

Beehaw.org was down for over 30 minutes, came back for 15 minutes, now down again another 30 minutes.

lemmy.ml is back online!

6 hours down for lemmy.ml is really going to have a lot of items queued on lemmy.world, beehaw, and other popular servers to delivery to lemmy.ml - causing resources to climb on all those servers.

Lemmy.world is now responding some at least, and some of the comments from remote servers came into this posting just now.

Personally, I don’t think the Lemmy numbers are that big. There are some instances running bots of feeds, a lot of memes. A lot of discussion about Lemmy and other federated services. I do not really consider the volume of posts/comments about everyday topics to be that high.

Federation protocol implementation is poorly optimized, it does SQL lookup for the person every incoming post/comment/like, checks the community if they are banned, all of this with zero caching. HTTP outbound is also very simple design that only now some logic to detect dead peer servers is being added, etc.

For micro/personal server runners

Having to send out all those posts, comments, likes is killing the servers holding all the content. The project leaders really need to make an announcement about the performance problems, they are systemic.