lemmy.world is amazing always up and smooth. When i first started lemmy when the exodus started from reddit i went to lemmy.ml I created an account and was wondering why it wasn't working all the time. Then realized the person hosting it isn't following or using good specs to handle the influx of users coming over. I think u/Ruud should talk to them.
I'm subscribed to some of lemmy.ml communities but it being down so much And if they don't get support fast I think they should just drop off and somebody should take over.
My issue is that many large communities are on lemmy.ml but trying to subscribe to them from other instances isn't working for me, it's just perpetually stuck at pending.
Seems like they are more focused on fixing the code for the whole community (which is good) rather than their own instance right now.
I joined about 10 minutes ago, it was a tough decision. Do I go with a small server as an experiment? Do I go with a large one? What about self-hosting? I settled on this one after reading the post from the admin about upgrading hardware. My hope is that it will stick around, but that's the beauty of the Fediverse. You can always join another instance if the community doesn't work out for you.
I decided to pick a smaller instance myself to be considerate, but I've noticed that not everything from other instances is coming through. Like right now I'm missing the post in here about Reddit forcing r/AdviceAnimals open. And every now and then I see a flood of new posts from other instances appear on my feed, but then if I refresh it's all gone again. I'm thinking of joining one or two of the larger instances too.
The flood when browsing all or if you have a ton of subscriptions is a feature that's going to be altered in the next version. It worked when submissions were coming in much slower. Now there is a ton of activity.
If you are trying to search for a community but it's not appearing try searching:
I think lemmy.world is in a great position because the admin has experience hosting decentralized platforms and already has a good pipeline to cover server costs because of that.
lemmy.ml is also the first instance that I joined. I don’t think lemmy.ml should drop off. Since it’s run by the lemmy devs I think they have their hands more than full at the moment, but I’m hopeful that things will stabilize eventually and they will get more financial support with the new users.
I think it’s important to have at least a few big populated instances that are “main” instances. I like what I see with lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, and beehaw.org. Personally I think it’s bad if we are too centralized on one instance or too spread out on a bunch of others. It seems like it’s going fairly well so far though, and I hope that when other big instances keep growing (and like I said get some more financial support from the community) they can improve their hardware too.
Sweet, Thanks for that. I don't think i will have lemmy.ml for my main instance since lemmy.world filled that void. but yea we should give lemmy.ml a chance. this influx of users migrating over was probably planned but not planned as how many will come over. IT will just get better and better. I actually woke up today and didn't even look for reddit, its deleted from my phone and all bookmarks are gone from my desktop. I was like. whats up with lemmy today :P
Yeah! Lemmy.world is a better fit for me overall. I had joined beehaw.org after lemmy.ml asked users to try and find other instances to call home initially. I didn’t completely mesh with their server preferences. They are a great community though and I appreciate what they’re doing. I hope they keep growing as well.
its usually the standard process of performance analytics and tuning configs, sometimes a code-hack here or there. Can take a week or hundreds of hours depending on the system. If the learnings can be captured in a document it can be an accelerator for many. We are going to need to teach more people to run bigger instances. We can't just rely on 2 or 3 or even 10 big servers.
don't know. I've only been able to search and comment and subscribe there. When I first got on lemmy lemmy.ml was the first place I signed up. it was slow and I couldn't do anything. I was about to go back to reddit cause I was like we went from reddit to this. Then started reading and realized that I can be on one instance and interact with all instances. then I found lemmy.world. so this is my main and I just interact with everything else