Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that’s really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

  • @Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
    85•2 years ago

    Lemmy.world holding such a prevalent place in the Lemmy/Kbin part of the Fediverse makes it a major single point of failure.

    They should still be the newcomers instance, but communities and users should migrate to other instances to increase the resilience of the Fediverse.

    • ScrubblesEnglish
      26•2 years ago

      in a weird way it’s good that it’s failing, I’ve seen an uptick in signups as people search for other instances

    • MxM111
      10•2 years ago

      It is not what is called “single point of failure “. Usually if “single point of failure “ fails, the whole thing fails. I am on kbin and experience zero failures.

      • @Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
        14•2 years ago

        If they were to actually go down (the current failures do not affect the backend), all of the communities they host wouldn’t be usable anymore, taking down a large portion of the Lemmy/Kbin communities.

        • MxM111
          4•2 years ago

          Only those that are on lemmy.world. There are tons of communities/magazines elsewhere. When lemmy.world goes down, I learn about it from posts. Otherwise, I would not notice.

    • @redballooon@lemm.ee
      9•2 years ago

      I created my first account there, which still exists. But on day 3 I created one at another instance, which I have used almost exclusively since.

      I wonder how many of their users are actually active.

        • Square Singer
          4•2 years ago

          Doesn’t say much as many of these could have just tried lemmy.world for a few minutes and then discarded the account. Or they could be super active. The statistic doesn’t say.

      • coyootje
        1•2 years ago

        Same here, I created my first account there while simultaneously creating this one on Kbin.social. With all the issues there were with lemmy.world I’ve decided to use this one for a while instead to see how I like Kbin. It’s been pretty nice so far, the only thing that sucks is that I haven’t found a good Kbin app for Android yet.

    • @Synthead@lemmy.ml
      6•2 years ago

      The uptime on lemmy.world is terrible. https://lemmy-world.statuspage.io currently shows 95% uptime, but it has been “down” from a UX perspective more than half the time I attempted to use it. The uptime reporting is simply not picking up when something is off as much as it should. And they recently added an archive.org proxy for when it goes down… what the heck? I understand that it is run by volunteers and all, but what a buzzkill.