UPDATE: @SDF@lemmy.sdf.org has responded

It is temporary as lemmy.world was cascading duplicates at us and the only way to keep the site up reliably was to temporarily drop them. We’re in the process of adding more hardware to increase RAM, CPU cores and disk space. Once that new hardware is in place we can try turning on the firehose. Until then, please patient.


ORIGINAL POST:

Starting sometime yesterday afternoon it looks like our instance started blocking lemmy.world: https://lemmy.sdf.org/instances

A screenshot of the page at https://lemmy.sdf.org/instances showing the lemmy.world instance on the blocklist

This is kind of a big deal, because 1/3rd of all active users originate there! A pie chart depicting the top instances by usershare. The lemmy.world instance is in the top spot with 1/3 of the total usershare

Was this decision intentional? If so, could we get some clarification about it? @SDF@lemmy.sdf.org

  • @SDFMA
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    491 year ago

    It is temporary as lemmy.world was cascading duplicates at us and the only way to keep the site up reliably was to temporarily drop them. We’re in the process of adding more hardware to increase RAM, CPU cores and disk space. Once that new hardware is in place we can try turning on the firehose. Until then, please patient.

    • @chaoraceOP
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      171 year ago

      Thanks for the prompt response! I shall have patience 😁. Post & Title have been edited to reflect your update.

      As usual, many thanks for your continued maintenance efforts & personal labor.

    • @sidhant
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      131 year ago

      Thank you, appreciate all the hard work that goes into keeping this instance alive.

    • @chaoraceOP
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      81 year ago

      Heads up: a new backend issue has been opened to track performance degradation: lemmy#3466. Looks like there’s also a private matrix channel that sprouted up for performance tuning & troubleshooting that you might potentially be interested in joining: info.

    • 70ms
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      61 year ago

      Thanks for the update (and giving me a new home!).

    • @Elindio
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      21 year ago

      Can you update this thread when it’s over?