666
submitted 10 months ago by j4k3@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world

This is completely counter productive to growing Lemmy. I absolutely despise discord. Look at the network traffic it generates and tell me wtf they are doing. They won't tell you. Their business model will leave you completely dumbfounded as to how they exist. Everything shared on the platform is lost in a black hole unavailable to the outside world and everything shared is a privacy nightmare. Posting this, pinning it here, and locking it is one of the biggest trolls possible. It pisses me off every time I log in. "Everyone else does it" is the excuse of idiots. Discord makes absolutely no sense to anyone that actually cares to look into it, read the user agreement, and ask sane questions about what they are doing.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Jaded@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's so the admins can communicate when the server is down. Would you rather they use Twitter?

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 10 months ago
[-] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world -4 points 10 months ago
[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 10 months ago
[-] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Why does it matter?

Because it needs to be DDOS-resistant and be able to handle at least 128k users. Otherwise it's not a fallback in case lemmy.world is targeted again. There are groups who hate LW and still want to take it down, if they know that their alternative communication channel is also some other self-hosted service they're going to target that one too.

So please list one instance which would satisfy these criteria.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Isn't content from Mastodon federated across the instances? Meaning that LW could just open an account on any Mastodon server (not their own, to avoid to handle both at the same time in case of issues)?

Or are you saying that Mastodon is as DDoS vulnerable as Lemmy, making the server that would host the LW account a DDoS target?

Edit: you edited in the meantime, but I guess our exchange still makes sense

[-] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So what I understand is that you're proposing to play cat and mouse with DDOS attackers then?

Or are you saying that Mastodon is as DDoS vulnerable as Lemmy, making the server that would host the LW account a DDoS target?

Exactly.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

Just to clarify, if someone is targeting LW, and Mastodon is as DDoS vulnerable as Lemmy, why wouldn't they attack mastodon.world as well?

Mastodon.world has 99,97% uptime: https://status.mastodon.world/

[-] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

why wouldn’t they attack mastodon.world as well?

Because it's not being advertised as LW's alternative communication channel, hence they likely don't see the need to target it.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Don't we already have a Matrix Channel for that? Even if they wanted a lemmy.world specific Space it's still Far better than proprietary Discord. I mean isn't it already encouraged to link Matrix for secure messaging, why not just use a Space on Matrix for lemmy.world support and communication.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Why not use IRC in that case, like normal Internet persons?

this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2023
666 points (87.4% liked)

Lemmy.world Support

3134 readers
25 users here now

Lemmy.world Support

Welcome to the official Lemmy.world Support community! Post your issues or questions about Lemmy.world here.

This community is for issues related to the Lemmy World instance only. For Lemmy software requests or bug reports, please go to the Lemmy github page.

This community is subject to the rules defined here for lemmy.world.

To open a support ticket Static Badge



founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS