I have been using Lemmy for 20 days, at first I opened an account at Lemmy.world because you can join without writing a text and waiting approval. I have been enjoying the experience overall but despite the admin teans best efforts Lemmy.world has been experiencing some serious performance issues. If you want to avoid that join a smaller instance, preferably hosted in your country. I joined discuss.tchncs.de today and everything is so much faster it has added benefit of being able to see beehaw.org posts too. It will improve not only your but all other Lemmy.world users experience too.
You still need an extra acc onthebig ones if you want to usethe apps though. Not all instances are supported.
Which app have you been struggling with? Both Jerboa and Connect worked fine with different servers for me, I’m guessing others are fine too
? On all Lemmy apps I’ve used, you can just type the URL for the Lemmy instance your account is on, even if it’s not on the “default” list.
I signed on to lemmy.world in June as that seemed like The Place, but now I’m thinking of switching to a lesser populated instance. I still haven’t found an instance that I like enough to switch to though. Right now, even with the performance issues, lemmy.world still feels like the most suitable instance for me.
Won’t you see limited posts?
As far as I know, once instance and either see all its own communities and all other instance’s. So should be fine and you wouldn’t be causing load on instances used by people who dont have enough knowledge to host.
Not if they’re federated to the larger instances, which they are by default. I think maybe you need to search an instance to start if no one from your instance has searched for the other instance yet, but idk, don’t quote me on that
this post made me move instances and i am glad that i did, thanks!
Close to you? I’m running my own instance in France and I live in Australia. It works great. The problem is overloaded instances.
Close to you helps in general, it’s not Lemmy specific. Though the Lemmy web ui caches stuff heavily so it might not be that much of a concern.
Agreed that close helps in general but 200-300ms isn’t really that noticeable unless it’s something where latency is important. I’m also surprised that some of the larger instances aren’t using Cloudflare for caching. If things like images etc… are cached all over the world then I doubt anyone would notice any speed issues.
300 ms is a lot for a website. It feels slow. Cloudflare could help with traffic but I think the main culprit here is the database.
Yeah being overloaded is definitely the biggest factor but servers being close also helps especially when you have a slow Internet connection. That is why I added bring close part as “preferably”
Can I migrate my account to a new instance? Or will i have user logins all over the fediverse?
For right now, I believe there is no way to move a user account so you will need to create a new one. Can be the same name, tho!
I believe there is a feature in the works to be able to move accounts between instances but I am unsure of where in the development pipeline it is.
Yeah, that will be nice if you can migrate your name to other instances… Cheers!
The best way Ive found is to copy the html of your community list and paste it into an online tool that pulls the hyperlinks out of it, then make an excel spreadsheet to change the URL of the community to the https format so it’s easier to search. The instances also aren’t 100% compatible. Like I can subscribe to kbin and Fedia on my larger instance account but not on my self hosted one.
Yeah, Lemmy being in a very “alpha” state makes some of the things a user wants to do difficult.
So if I host my instance but subscribe to communities on lemmy.world do I actually lessen the load on lemmy.world because it only has to deal with the API calls from my instance instead of having to serve me a full fat UI? (damn that was a long sentence!)
Yes, I just made the switch to a closer instance yesterday. So much faster. I was on lemmy.world for the past few weeks but then I realized the server is hosted in Europe and I was getting 144ms ping from US east coast. This new instance I’m on, I’m getting 22ms ping.
You can test latency yourself from cmd by typing “ping lemmy.world” for example
Do you mind sharing your new instance? I am also on the US east coast
You can see what instance a lemmy user used from their username (
@user@instance). Based on their user name, the GP is on lemm.ee instance.Oh cool, thanks!
I’m having trouble understanding how this works. If i create a community on a different instance, why can’t i find it here, even when i have the switch set to all? Do they only sync on certain times of the day? Also when i delete a community (that i created by accident) why does it not disappear?
Federation happens gradually and changes are usually not visible everywhere at the same time. Using a fully qualified name (or an URL like
https://lemmy.world/c/community@instance) you should be able to access your new community though.
I’m hosting a tiny instance for myself a few friends that serves as a reliable gateway to communities and content from bigger instances. Sign up approvals are limited, but I’m open to a few public users.
Currently email verification is enabled, but feel free to use a burner. This will be disabled in favor of captchas when 0.18.1 drops.
Isn’t 18.1 already live?
It’s in release candidate (rc.9) so fairly mature but not technically released.
Do you have any advice on how to find one? Especially the “local to you” part?
Useful. From this I find my instance is hosted in Russia. I should probably find another one closer to me
Thank you!!
For people still looking for an instance close to their location: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map
Is moving instances a thing or would you need to sign up from scratch?
There’s a script already in development by an enthusiast https://sh.itjust.works/post/693061
Currently Lemmy doesn’t support account migrating but it is technically possible afaik. It might get added in future but currently you have to sing up from sracth. Hovewer I would say having a Lemmy.world account in addition is probably a good call.
AFAIK you need to sign up from scratch. But I’m pretty sure Lemmy devs will work on that. It’s already a thing on Mastodon.
Hello there, and welcome to our community! I hope you like it in here.
Could you please include some body text as to why should people know this, and how would that help them? It’s our second rule. Thank you :)
