Both were down for me before, they seem to be up right now but just made this account on Lemmy.blahaj.zone (Henry is the name of my actual blahaj lol). It’s probably because of the traffic influx from reddit refugees from the absolutely disastrous spez ama (where he doubles down on everything and doesn’t apologize at all). Allegedly they’re trying to suppress Lemmy mentions but I guess it’s not working well enough lol

A good problem to have although long term we’re going to have to figure out how to deal with these spikes in traffic.

  • kasirate@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    yeah, that ama convinced me it was time to take the plunge. just created this account, first comment on lemmy lol

    • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 year ago

      first comment on lemmy

      From kasirate@kbin.social

      Lol. There’s gonna be a lot of heads exploding when people realize what the fediverse is and how it works.

      • VariegatedAnxiety@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        I don’t even understand, myself. ATM I have one kbin account and a few Lemmy accounts. Not sure if there is an advantage to having an account on a kbin instance vs a Lemmy instance or anything??

        At the moment, Jerboa seems like the best way to browse on Android (although nowhere near as polished as many of the bigger Reddit apps obviously), so it seems like picking a compatible instance with that works best right now. Still, it’s all a bit overwhelming!

  • pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io
    0·
    1 year ago

    This was enough for me to start my own instance. It’s not too hard with ansible, and Lemmy being Rust it’s not needing that much CPU or RAM.

    And I’ll invite my friends here too. If you’re capable of running your own server, do it for your friends. Form small communities and you can always subscribe to the big server communities from your own service.