Anyone else visiting Lemmy more because feddit.uk is SO GOD DAMN FAST
Anyone else visiting Lemmy more because feddit.uk is SO GOD DAMN FAST
Truly loving this instance, and UK servers are clearly helping with speed for both the website version and API calls from Connect for Lemmy.
Thanks @[email protected] - your work is greatly appreciated (buy him a coffee!) and I truly hope Lemmy takes off as the new MANY front pages of the Internet. 🙂
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The fact that lemmy.world is the size of the rest of the large Lemmy instances combined can be useful if you are starting a community because there are a lot of local users who will just spot your community from "Local" and you can get thousands of more followers. It's also run by a well-known and well-founded non-profit so they have the knowhow and finance to pretty much guarantee that they are going to stick around.
However, as people have found, it can slow down. As they run mastodon.world and calckey.world and Reddit and Twitter both threw spanners in their own works last weekend they were likely scrambling to boost capacity and it showed the strain. There are also concerns about everything being centralised in just a few big instances on each service. I don't see a way the .world instances could be taken over by commercial interests so I think we're alright from that front but we can't predict the future.
I was reading that Lemmy.World has to restart its Lemmy instance every 30 minutes, else it runs out of RAM and falls on it's arse.... And a single instance won't use all the CPU threads correctly, so that have to run a few on the same server and load-balance them.
Let's hope those bugs can get ironed out!
Oh wow that would certainly be a pain.
They applied some database fixes on the 5th that have much improved the speed now.