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Why have we started blocking lemmy.world? (NO LONGER BLOCKED) (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org to c/sdfpubnix@lemmy.sdf.org
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UPDATE: @SDF@lemmy.sdf.org 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

A screenshot of the page at https://lemmy.sdf.org/instances showing the lemmy.world instance on the blocklist

This is kind of a big deal, because 1/3rd of all active users originate there! A pie chart depicting the top instances by usershare. The lemmy.world instance is in the top spot with 1/3 of the total usershare

Was this decision intentional? If so, could we get some clarification about it? @SDF@lemmy.sdf.org

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[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

It's the biggest instance by far, to the point of being virtually non-viable to defederate from. If they ever sell out or make decisions other instances don't like, tough cookies.