Things have been incredibly unstable there. Until things stabilise, they should force the traffic elsewhere.

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    Which is why it keeps dropping. The way Lemmy is designed, a bunch of stuff is kept in memory. Like loading a post with a lot of comments spikes the CPU and memory, A LOT A LOT. Things are of course improving rapidly, but until fixes like that and the federation queue land, it’s easy to bring a server so over capacity to its knees.

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      Yeah ok. Well honestly I think it’s absurd that they have so many users and communities, and I hope people take this time to spread out.

      It’s almost comic how everyone is on Lemmy.world when there is over a thousand other instances with zero problems.

      I recommend Lemmy.today and specially if you are not afraid to post stuff. Would be nice to get some more local conversions going.

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        Problem is, most people are going to take one look at join-lemmy and not know what to do. It’s so much easier to point people at lemmy.world or lemmy.ml.

        And until very recently, small servers have had a ton of trouble finding communities on the big servers. That seems to be mostly resolved, though I still get community not found errors when I first navigate to a new community, but refreshing takes care of this. New users aren’t going to know what to do with this.

        Granted, many (most?) people seem to think these problems are a good thing because it keeps the normies out, but forums are nothing without people.