On Friday, January 30, 2026, the IP address for feddit.org will change from 146.255.56.83 to 146.255.56.93 over the course of the day.
The reason for this is that we are moving the entire instance to a new Kubernetes cluster. The migration will proceed as follows: in the first step, we will make feddit.org accessible on both IPs in parallel (the data backends for text and images are identical and accessible from both the old and new clusters).
We will then monitor how many accesses are still occurring via the old IP address and decide when we can completely shut down the old cluster. Currently, a transition period of about one week is planned. This should make the migration transparent for all users, regardless of DNS caches, etc.
Changes to Bot Protection
As you probably know, bots from LLM companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) aggressively try to crawl websites for content, repeatedly causing performance and access issues. For this reason, we will protect feddit.org in the future with Anubis. This requires the browser to solve a simple “proof-of-work” task before content is presented. For “normal” use of feddit.org, this measure is not noticeable but has proven very effective in defending against bots.
Furthermore, we are also lifting the extensive IP blocks for certain “problematic” network ranges - feddit.org will thus be fully accessible again worldwide. The issues where images from feddit.org might not load on other instances should also be resolved.
Next Steps
Subsequently, we will shut down the old instance and replace it with an information page about the change, in case any traffic still lands there.
After that, we will update feddit.org to the latest Lemmy version in a subsequent maintenance window. There will be a separate announcement for that.
feddit just announced that these problems should disappear two weeks from now. https://feddit.org/post/24855903
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I am gonna be able to see this post after 2 weeks😭
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