lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead - tchncs
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This site is currently struggling to handle the amount of new users. I have already upgraded the server, but it will go down regardless if half of Reddit tries to join. However Lemmy is federated software, meaning you can interact seamlessly with communities on other instances like beehaw.org [http://beehaw.org] or lemmy.one [https://lemmy.one]. The documentation [https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/index.html] explains in more detail how this works. Use the instance list [https://join-lemmy.org/instances] to find one where you can register. Then use the Community Browser [https://browse.feddit.de/] to find interesting communities. Paste the community url into the search field to follow it. You can help other Reddit refugees by inviting them to the same Lemmy instance where you joined. This way we can spread the load across many different servers. And users with similar interests will end up together on the same instances. Others on the same instance can also automatically see posts from all the communities that you follow. Edit: If you moderate a large subreddit, do not link your users directly to lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] in your announcements. That way the server will only go down sooner.

I’ll tweak a thing or two today to ensure the current machine will be able to handle that ever growing wave, as not only the known network grows, the line of people trying to join the instance keeps growing as well (welcome!).

A few seconds of downtime are to be expected as changes require very short restarts of services. Don’t worry this is expected to be so quick, most of you won’t even notice.