Reddit is a Dying Mall - eviltoast
  • RoyalEngineering@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    At least the mall of Reddit is open 24/7.

    That new mom and pop down the road seems to close at random times during the day. 😉

      • grue@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        The Walmarts near me haven’t been open 24/7 since the pandemic. Definitely still full of garbage and shitty people, though.

      • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        The instance I use is ran by a bunch of Unix nerds, so I’d expect them to wear their uptime as a badge of honour. I suspect there’s probably a sweet spot for instance size, where it doesn’t hit the biggest scaling problems, but big enough to justify the ongoing effort, rather than obviously being a one-man shop that will vanish when his cheque to Digital Ocean bounces.

    • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Ahhh, defending reddit because lemmy.world is the target of constant ddos attacks? Just go to a different instance. Lemmy’s not closed. A single entrance is just being blocked by assholes who support billionaire-owned platforms.

      • Gestrid@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        It’s like a mall where the main entrance is closed for construction, but all the other entrances, including the entrances through different stores, are all open.

        • grue@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          It’s more like a mall where the main entrance is being blocked by dipshit reactionaries and trolls picketing in front of it.

          • Gestrid@lemmy.ca
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            1 year ago

            I used the construction analogy because they are at least trying to fix the DDOS issues, or at least that’s what I’ve heard.