Tried to visit the main site, and this popped up?

  • Pekka@feddit.nl
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    2 years ago

    Getting an error page sometimes when visiting a popular Lemmy instance is normal unfortunately. The popular instances get a lot of traffic, and that is probably what causes this. I have had this happen with Lemmy.world a few times so far.

    Even on Reddit this wasn’t that rare. They just have a system in between that hands you a nice error page with a sad looking Snoo and an error message.

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      2 years ago

      Yeah, it’s less common in the era of modern cloud computing and 99% uptime, but in the era of the fail whale wasn’t that long ago. The fediverse is a whole new tech paradigm run mostly by hobbyists. It’s going to have to grapple with those same problems as it grows

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      Yeah, it’s less common in the era of modern cloud computing and 99% uptime, but in the era of the fail whale wasn’t that long ago. The fediverse is a whole new tech paradigm run mostly by hobbyists. It’s going to have to grapple with those same problems as it grows

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      Yeah, it’s less common in the era of modern cloud computin and 99% uptime, but in the era of the fail whale wasn’t that long ago. The fediverse is a whole new tech paradigm run mostly by hobbyists. It’s going to have to grapple with those same problems as it grows

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      Yeah, it’s less common in the era of modern cloud computing and 99% uptime, but in the era of the fail whale wasn’t that long ago. The fediverse is a whole new tech paradigm run mostly by hobbyists. It’s going to have to grapple with those same problems as it grows