UPDATE: @[email protected] 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
This is kind of a big deal, because 1/3rd of all active users originate there!
Was this decision intentional? If so, could we get some clarification about it? @[email protected]
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.
Thanks for the update (and giving me a new home!).
Thank you, appreciate all the hard work that goes into keeping this instance alive.
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.
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.