They're being targeted for constant DDoS attacks. Could be multiple reasons. But the takeaway should be to spread out evenly through the fediverse. Don't all pile into .world (as I post this on my .world account).

My guess, some loveless planarian with a botnet felt they didn't get enough attention from mommy and decided to hit .world with a couple DDOS attacks.

One claim is DDOS attacks, another claim is that the servers are too small for the massive amount of people that recently adopted lemmy

I'd love to know which is true just because .. . . it's fun to know details

They were getting hit with a lot of DDoS attacks a week or two ago, that may still be going on. Also they took off faster than most instances so a lot of this is just growing pains.

many people have been bailing from the server

That's not a bad thing, the content is shared between instances so you can get it on the other sites too. People going to other sites will hopefully help balance the load and possibly help with the growing pains. I haven't created an account on another instance yet, but I've been visiting other instances when .world goes down.

Growing pains. It's ok we'll pull through.

4 hours to post this?

DDOS? Cloudflare is supposed to stop that. I see a lot of cloudflare errors.

lemmy world status shows 292 instances in the past 8 days! Elevated response times and system resources repeated endlessly.

Insufficient RAM and CPU are my main suspicion due to explosive growth. Parts aren't cheap but are needed.

How can we help with funding?

Subscriptions? - NO. This is not a commercial endeavour.

Donations? - Maybe. One off donations with no further commitment. Obviously, donate again if you want to.

Go Fund Me? - Possible but who sets it up. Possible fraud?

I've hopped to another server due to the abysmal uptime of late. I'll continue checking in though. I know they're working on adding sysops so I'm sure things will improve.

I left because of the executive decision to defederate from hexbear.

I wish the admins would come out and give an update as to what is going on.

I wish I could migrate my account to another instance.

Really sucks that some dummies would attack lemmy like this.

Also another thread on the topic : https://lemmy.world/post/2856311

It's in !fediverse@lemmy.world , named "When you notice Lemmy is quieter than usual, then have a look at the Lemmy.world status"