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Since the morning today, l had been unable to access my feddit.online account. It's only in the evening that things are slowly coming back to normal.

Did such a thing happen primarily due to a traffic jam in the fediverse ??

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I think this can only happen on larger instances that don't have the infrastructure to scale for spikes of high demand. This isn't a flaw of the protocol; you'd have to speak to the people who host your instance about the issues it has.