It seems like most times I go to my .world account, I get the bad gateway error. Is there a fix for this?
AFAIK it’s a mix of DDoS attacks and Lemmy bugs.
It’s really getting old. But if it’s DDoS attacks, I’m not giving up. I might if it was just repeated resource issues, but I refused to be pushed by assholes.
There’s no reason not to use a different home instance. It’s generally a good idea for sharing the load.
As you can see, I posted this from a different instance, so I get that, but I’ve spent a lot of time subscribing to things from my .world account and it works take a long time to duplicate that on an alt, so my preference would be to stay there as my default.
I haven’t tried it myself but there seems to be something for this: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim
I assume I’d need to do that on a desktop, correct? I’ve been exclusively mobile, but could give it a try.
That’s correct. It’s currently a desktop-only tool.
But who would be DDoSing Lemmy instances? Not that I doubt you; honest question.
It was me. There is a light switch in my garage … I didn’t know what it was for. Figured out today it launches attacks on Lemmy.world 😭
On that score, there’s not much use trying to reason it out. The 4chan types seem to like kicking down other people’s sandcastles. It doesn’t buy them anything, they just seem to get off on increasing unhappiness.
Reddit, Lemmy haters who were defederated, Lemmy haters, literally anyone.
Sync was released recently, and - like many apps before it - directed its users to lemmy.world as a ‘default’ instance, so they’ve had an influx of users to contend with.
Also, if you ask for the ‘next page’ of communities via their API, it’ll just keep feeding you the same ones, over and over, even if you ask for Page 1 Billion, so there’s probably some bots, crawlers, front-ends etc thrashing the hell out of it.
I don’t know about DDoS attacks, but while they’re happening, it seems to act a catch-all to blame any problems on.
Its a lemmy bug with the backend. The Database breaks down because of some queries and is stuck until a restart.
Do you have the link to the Github issue for that?
I’m completely ok with this happening, it is to be expected with a project of this magnitude.
Be prepared, have a second account on another instance.
What I find strange is the absence of communication. This is the third day with major issues and I haven’t seen an announcement. Or even just people talking about it? Nothing (until now). I might have missed it all, but I used the search function with no luck
I agree completely, and posted this question from an alternate account. The admins have been so transparent, the silence on this issue seems really weird. Even the posts on the instance status site are relatively cryptic. I posted this question because it’s frustrating not knowing what’s going on.
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It’s been going on since well before that, and they’ve been pretty good at transparency generally, so that seems unlikely to me.
Today’s the first and only time my main account has been useless. There have been minor issues, but nothing like this for me.
Then you were lucky! Issues are known and are be worked on.
