This is the beginning of lemmy. Early days means lots of crashing, testing, and rebooting. Do what smart people do and join and second and third instance so when your main one goes down you can hop to the other one and use it temporarily. Also yes sh.itjust.works is down for me right now too.

Currently down: https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/sh.itjust.works.html

It works okay for me?