Why do the instances keep going down? It makes me think that this is not a reliable social network, but the alternatives are not as good.

  •  pjhenry1216   ( @pjhenry1216@kbin.social ) 
    6•1 year ago

    Lemmy.world isn’t meant to replace Reddit. The fediverse and various implementations of the ActivityPub protocol are. Lemmy and Kbin appear to be some of the frontrunners, but lemmy.world isn’t a lynchpin. Other Lemmy instances are up. And it’s a bit naive to expect mostly volunteer servers to have the same uptime as a well-founded corporation. And let’s remember, reddit used to go down a lot more early in its life compared to late in life (and it’d still go down then).

    Plus, it’s still a bit entitled to expect uptime just because they have an intent to provide what they believe is a better service than reddit. It’s not only about folks ingesting content, but also those who create and moderate.

    It’s reliability has been pretty good all things considered.

    •  hitmyspot   ( @hitmyspot@aussie.zone ) 
      2•1 year ago

      I don’t disagree, but discussing reliability and access shouldn’t be met with suggestions to leave the community.

      It may be entitled to expect uptime for a volunteer service but it’s also entitled of the project as a whole to expect users if the service is not usable.

      I’ve had good reliability. My home instance advises when updated are planned and are normally for minutes. The timeline is generally rough estimates, with the caveat that the admin is doing it outside their usual work hours. The users thank them for the update and take an interest.