I had this exact issue last night and the same with feddit.uk. Either sign up is borked or it's instability. The instances will get there eventually, things are just a lil weird right now.
Thanks. The increased load of a major sub migrating and needing to work with the instance owner somehow isn't something I'd considered. It seems I did a whole of of thinking about this without really thinking about anything!
Indeed. I do feel slightly bad for jumping on lemmy.world and adding to the problem when it definitely isn't the best one for me! I'll probably move to a UK instance at some point. On apps, wefwef is a god send. Apollo is legitimately what I missed most after moving back from iOS to Android, so to be able to use an Apollo-like again is amazing. To see some of the third party Reddit devs making apps for Lemmy is exciting and I think bodes well for the future of the platform.
There's a lot here I'd not considered so this is helpful, thanks.
The splintering is an issue I've run into already. When I searched for squaredcircle on the assumption the subreddit community had started moving, I got results for five 'squaredcircle' communities across five different instances and none of them have a significant membership. I don't want to further splinter the community by creating another community as you say, so I figured I'd just have to subscribe to all of them and wait to see which one takes off. I guess it's going to be down to the subreddit mods to say "this is where we're going", if that's even what they want to do. Until then it might be a bit daunting for those making the jump but it is what it is.
Is there 'etiquette' for choosing which instance your migrated subreddit is hosted on?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1028827
This question may be moot but it's something I've been thinking about. I've only recently jumped into this brave new world so you'll have to forgive my ignorance.
I'm wondering if there's any etiquette or conventions for which instance a 'migrated' subreddit should be hosted on. More specifically, I'm thinking about the communities where the subject matter is more regional.
For example, if I use an account on a UK-based instance because that's local to me then it might not be optimal to create a community on the UK instance if the subject matter is US-centric. Would that ultimately lead to a worse experience for the majority of those community members that are based in North America?
The difference in speed for me connecting to something in the UK vs the US is basically negligible, but it's non-zero and potentially exacerbated for those that have slower or unstable internet connections. This may be particularly true while rapidly-expanding instances are a bit unstable anyway.
It's obviously up to the mods of each subreddit to decide what to do for their "official" migration. However, what I'm afraid of happening is:
- A migrated subreddit is hosted on an instance which has a detrimental effect on the experience of a significant number of its users.
- To combat this, former Reddit communities get splintered into multiple, region-based communities.
The latter wouldn't be so bad but one of the things that made Reddit so appealing to me was the differences in perspective from all walks of life that sparked discussion. That sense of being part of a diverse, active community might be lost if the overall Reddit migration is handled in a haphazardly way.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Am I worrying about a non-issue?
Is it time to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?
Thanks. I'll x-post it shortly.