Yeah it's command line and python so definitely not suited for everyone. It's why I point out that the Sync dev is working in it. All of it is just growing pains..
There are tools out to help you (at least partly) migrate your account. It won't migrate your posts and comments but it will migrate your subscriptions.
Again, the fediverse is still very small. We hope that the fediverse will continue to grow and what is wrong about actively working towards, helping the fediverse as a whole? We work together with other instance admins.. But for some reason it is bad to be successful and we don't have our hearts in this?
You have no idea how much work is being put in to get things stable. That's an insult to everyone working in the background together even with other instance admins. Other admins help because they know we all benefit from these growing pains.
A lot of you who come with these remarks seem to forget that the fediverse is still very small. If you want to compare it to reddit the entire fediverse isn't even the size of a medium subreddit.
Which is why we will adjust our sign-up page. But not every small instance wants new users because that would increase operating costs which they might not be willing to cover.
let us know which instance (even by pm) do we can have an informed reply as to what is going on. There have been changes made in the backend to fend of attacks but this should not affect federation.
There is a bug in Lemmy where instances are too early marked as 'inactive' and will stop federating.
Btw the title of this thread is 'stop registrations' not 'help me find out what is going on'.
It's the attacks. The amount of users or communities is not the problem but there are people who want us to close down (registrations) for a variety of reasons.
Another thing to keep in mind is that when an instance goes down you lose the content. Instances should be reliable too. So just listing any random instance and overloading them would not help either. Imagine running a private instance for yourself and some friends and getting randomly listed on the signup page here..
Instead of mentioning your instance so we can help you you seem to have other motives.
Edit: but if you want the logic. We had discussions internally as well as with other instance admins about this and the conclusion was - even from other instance admins - that closing registrations would be a bad idea. Currently a lot of people are sent to lemmy.world from reddit and 3rd party apps for example. If people land here and are not able to register they might not look into it further and give up because it is too complicated or overwhelming. So that would actually be worse for the fediverse. That is why we want to make the sign up page more informative and provide options.
We are not 'dropping' messages from smaller instances. @ruud@lemmy.world and others did tighten up some things to fend off some attacks but that should not interfere with the federation.
If you could have at least mentioned your instance name we could ask our backend administrators to have a look and we could get back to you with an informed answer.
We will not close registrations, what we will do is show people information on how the fediverse works and give them the option to register on other instances. That will be implemented in the next couple of days.
I feel that 2 Euro per month for something I use that much isn't really that bad of a deal. But I just want to support Lemmy and the developers that make this all happen. I also did some donations to other devs (Alexandrite this month) but Sync is the most polished and feature-rich app by far imo.
Technically that should work.
And the reason I asked for your instance name is so we could check this in our db table or check if your instance IP didn't end up on our banlist.