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Like, has an instance gone down and if so, why hasn't there been a comparable drop in users and comments?
Edit: Thanks to @[email protected] here for pointing to zerobytes.monster becoming more aggressive against bots as the likely culprit.
It may have been lemmy.zip
It did in fact go down for about 48 hours... prompting me to make this new account on dbzer0.
Basically, the admin attempted to update to a newer lemmy version... and it failed, multiple times, and they just rolled back, restored the old version, posted an explanation and apology, and they'll be further looking into ... exactly what went wrong.
Is divide by zero becoming the most based instance? How did a single bro make best lemmy?!?
Hm, could be indeed
https://lemmy.zip/post/35999238
Here's the post.
Evidently, Demigodrick has since fixed the problems and successfully upgraded to 0.19.11
https://lemmy.zip/post/36177918
EDIT: Alternate explanation: The fediverse tracker has fallen victim to Trump Tariffs as well rofl.
The front fell off
In case anyone hasn't seen this bit:
That’s gold!
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...
I remember a bot purge, but I'm not sure if that was around the same time.
Believe it or not, they’re all Nicole posts removed by Lemmy.World /s
Interesting drop
It’s probably just some technical issue. I’m sure the post didn’t actually go anywhere.
They just got up and left.