For hours today, yesterday, and intermittently since I’ve been on here (a month or so) lemmy stops loading using jerboa, liftoff, and a web browser.

The site isn’t listed on any down detector I know of, and each app gives different errors but ultimately just won’t load.

It’s often enough that recently when I consider jumping on here I just don’t because there will probably be an issue. Ranging from not loading, JSON errors, or just blank screens and my comments not working…

What’s going on? Is there a status page for these places?

  • @rglullisAEnglish
    -2•11 months ago

    Donation-based models have been used for ages and it worked for mastodon.world

    Maybe I wasn’t clear on the blog post. There are two objections to donation-based funding:

    • unless everyone working on an instance is properly compensated, it’s hard to say “it is working” or “it is sustainable”
    • it may work for particular instances, but it stunts the growth of the overall fediverse.

    You might not see it that way, but my argument is that relying on donations hides the true costs of running the server from the users and (like in ad-funded business) distorts the “market” in a way that makes the overall system less efficient.