Reddit is experiencing a nationwide outage that has taken down the app and website. Thousands of users have reported error messages and comments disappearing from the site.
  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    2 hours ago

    Reddit down report #420 this year.

    Tell me when AWS or something is down. Reddit goes down so often it becomes a nothing burger

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.world
      11·
      7 hours ago

      Funny how they have the audacity to complain about this place being botted when their bot problem is so, SO much worse.

        • Draconic NEO@lemmy.world
          5·
          5 hours ago

          Yeah there really are not that many here, and while there are probably more who hide in the background, it’s nowhere near what the Reddit scabs/stans claim when they talk shit about Lemmy and alternative platforms in general.

          • gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            4·
            5 hours ago

            ‘alternative is not ‘click 3 buttons’, therefore it sucks balls and no one should use it’

  • Strange_Design@lemmy.world
    211·
    14 hours ago

    Reddit being down is how I found out about this place. This is literally my first post here. Thanks for sucking Reddit!

    • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
      321·
      13 hours ago

      Don’t forget to apply to the No Poop Challenge!

      Jokes aside, welcome. It’s a bit messy but fun here. Make sure to take a look at how instances work, for most part you can ignore it but it does improve a lot your experience.

        • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
          3·
          5 hours ago

          It’s a local meme.

          A year ago or so someone posted in AskLemmy “I need to survive for 3 days while pooping as much as possible. I can pee as often as I like. It can take up loads of space. What food do I pack?” Apparently they were serious with the question, but… well, it’s bloody hilarious and suddenly everyone was joking about it.

          The original thread was deleted, but you see plenty copycat threads like this one.

      • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
        271·
        12 hours ago

        The top two mistakes I ever made on the Fediverse were unknowingly posting in Chapotraphouse in hexbear.net, and similarly in Lemmygrad.ml. Lemmy was practically unusable for me until I realized I could block those instances (and later lemmy.ml), which improved my happiness here by >99%, no joke.

        Definitely it’s worth paying attention to how instances work.

        • njordomir@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 hours ago

          I’m out of the loop on the meta despite being active on the platform. What’s the deal with those other two servers? I can see they have strong “personalities”.

        • 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          9·
          11 hours ago

          I’m the same way… I don’t like to block people because I want to know what everybody’s saying… But I had to block hex bear. I normally just scroll all and they were everywhere all the time everyday and it just got too much.

          • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
            5·
            10 hours ago

            I used to be quite proud of myself for never blocking anyone on Reddit, ever. Also I was a mod of a couple of gaming subs, so it wouldn’t have worked in those anyway:-). But eventually I realized… it wasn’t helping my state of mind, and rather it was affecting my irl relationships too. So I stepped back from modding, and finally blocked a particularly onerous troll account that I did not want to ban as a mod, but I sure did enjoy blocking him as a normal user.:-)

            There’s a saying about the only thing we must not tolerate is intolerance, and it doesn’t quite go far enough imho as to state the consequences of failing to block intolerance - that they drag us down to become more like them:-(.

            • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
              2·
              8 hours ago

              and finally blocked a particularly onerous troll account that I did not want to ban as a mod, but I sure did enjoy blocking him as a normal user.:-)

              Just for curiosity, what was the troll doing?

              I got a few of them from my Reddit mod times too, but since I was moderating smaller subs I had some freedom to tweak the rules towards their behaviour. (Because if I’m getting annoyed by the troll, odds are that other members are too.)

              • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
                2·
                18 minutes ago

                Standard troll (like toddler) stuff: pushing boundaries to see just exactly how far they could go, while stopping just inside the stated rules.

                The reason I didn’t ban him is that his trolling was directed almost solely at me as the mod, but to the rest of the community he was actually quite helpful, and even somewhat kind 95% of the time. Some kind of problem with authority I suppose, even though I’d previously offered him my mod position but he turned it down.

                We all have bad seasons in life, and I shudder to think what he went through during the pandemic. Not that it matters bc behavior is always a choice - Hitler’s home life surely wasn’t fantastic either - but by way of explanation, I do wonder how much the pandemic encouraged trolling on the internet world-wide (most likely: it simply became the latest in a very long like of reasons). And anyway, he was definitely this way before that started, so at best it would be an exaggerating factor.

                He seemed good at masking behaviors, thus overall he was better for the community than he was annoying. And it was a small community (at least among regular posters) to begin with. And I was getting super annoyed by the game itself, and by Reddit, so rather than kick him out I stepped down as mod (I had been training someone already, and a prior mod returned from before the pandemic, so it was in good hands) and left the sub myself instead, and now there’s “peace” over there:-).

  • Mio@feddit.nu
    3·
    6 hours ago

    This problem cannot happen to feddiverse? All nodes just queue sending to others?

    • TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
      3·
      5 hours ago

      Ask kbin.social

      It can happen because communities and users are monolithic. You lose your home instance, you have to create a new account somewhere else. The community is located in the instance that goes down, you can no longer participate in it and its former members all have to scramble if they want to participate.

    • AngryPancake@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      5 hours ago

      Your user is still linked to your home instance. If that goes down, you don’t have access to it. You can still browse Lemmy from other servers.

    • cheddar@programming.dev
      1·
      5 hours ago

      True that. It’s incredible how terrible reddit is from the technical point of view. You can clearly see that even if they have good engineers there, they aren’t getting any resources to do their job properly.

    • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
      132·
      12 hours ago

      I don’t get it either. I know a lot of lemmy users have an axe to grind with reddit, but treating every temporary outage like it’s dead forever is just bizarre.

      • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.orgEnglish
        52·
        11 hours ago

        It’s like honestly delusional behavior. Just a huge echo chamber repeating the same boring shit over and over. It’s ironic because one of the reasons that people came to Lemmy was to eacape the Reddit circklejerk culture.

        • BossDj@lemm.ee
          51·
          11 hours ago

          On top of it, this is fucking Daily Mail. They fell for a Daily Mail shock value story.

    • 0ops@lemm.ee
      3·
      11 hours ago

      Yeah back when still used reddit I found myself scrolling through the comments of coping redditters on downdetector.com at least once every couple of months I swear, and I was never even that active

  • GooberEarEnglish
    10·
    11 hours ago

    Somewhat tangential question: Why do so many sites have links to an external status monitoring site, but when the site is down and you go to check the status on that external status monitoring site, it says everything’s fine? What’s the point of the status site if it doesn’t actually acknowledge that there’s any sort of outage nor provide any info on it?

    • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
      6·
      7 hours ago

      There are a few options off the top off my head

      1. the route/connection between the monitoring and you is OK; between the company and the monitoring is OK; but between you and the company is not OK – this means that, so far as the monitoring can tell, the site is up.
      2. The status checks run at some interval and you’re hitting it before that interval
      3. There’s some threshold of errors that needs to happen first so tiny hiccups don’t register as full-blown outages.
      4. the monitoring/metrics are poorly-designed

      There are probably other cases. I don’t know the architecture in this case, so I won’t speculate at any others.

        • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
          1·
          8 minutes ago

          Yeah, I thought of that a few minutes later and was too lazy to edit. I also thought maybe it’s semi-auto and someone needs to verify it manually before allowing the UI to show

  • Die4Ever@programming.dev
    42·
    16 hours ago

    When my Lemmy instance is down (which is very rare, much more stable than Reddit), I just browse via a different instance!