Whether you are a Reddit refugee (I am one) or just randomly stumbled upon Lemmy and decided to join lemmy.world, welcome to the Fediverse.
If you have been here for long enough and settled in and now finally feel comfortable with Lemmy, I highly advice you to move to smaller instances. I just newly left Lemmy.world to join Lemm.ee.
We need to capitalize on the decentralized nature of the Fediverse and Lemmy instead of having everyone joining one instance. This will benefit the admins of Lemmy.world a lot as they would not have to deal with such a high amount of users. It also leaves room for new users to join and have a good experience rather than an experience filled with server outages where they will give up on Lemmy.
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don’t see the benefit tbh. software will scale, or not, if not people will leave for others
I really want to see a data viz of whether/how much users are spreading out. Anyone got the data on user counts over time by instance?
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
Use 1m column for monthly active users
Let’s stop calling people “refugees” from social media sites. It detracts from actual refugees experiencing real existential issues.
While i do see your point about not detracting from actual life changing issues, refugee literally means “one that flees” so people fleeing from reddit are refugees by definition. 🙂
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Thanks for this! I just picked up a RPi4 and have been kicking it around trying to host a few applications and I’m just about to re-flash and start fresh. I’ll give Yunohost a shot tonight!
wasn’t yunohost using an older version of Lemmy?
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We got almost 20,000 instances I don’t think we need to push people to self hosting unless that’s something they specifically enjoy.
No its 1376 instances and about 28000+ communities I believe.
Thanks for correcting me. I must have gotten confused between the Instances and communities.
My steps were:
- Sign up for free Google cloud VM instance
- Buy a $3 domain name from Cloudflare
- Install with Lemmy-Easy-Deploy
- Change Cloudflare to “Strict”
- Log in
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Honestly, I don’t even know. It was in the advanced settings on Lemmy-Easy-Deploy and I missed it and spent like 2 hours troubleshooting until I saw that, lol.
.win is a $3 domains on Cloudflare and shouldn’t have issues of being revoked (like .ml is going through and others could potentially face).
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I bought the domain through Cloudflare and when setting the CNAME and A records it automatically proxied them so I didn’t even think about it at the time.
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It is the strength and the weakness of it all.
On Mastodon I did exactly this. A month later the small server closed and I had to start over from scratch.
It is a good point but are people really joining lemmy.world en mass still and if so why don’t the admins close registrations?
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Given I haven’t advertised it anywhere, I’ll take this opportunity to shamelessly plug the open instance I run: leminal.space.
The default theme’s a bit quirky, but you can change that in your settings if it’s not your bag.
Your theme looks great! Nice design chrisbit.
Thanks. I can’t take credit for the design though because it’s using the vaporwave theme that comes with Lemmy as a base with some modifications.
In that case, nice choice!
I’m not sure I understand. If I joined lemmy.world and subbed to stuff I like that has enough users to be interesting you’re saying, unsubscribe from those and join a different one with less users? I don’t know how that’s supposed to work?
Or are you saying join a different sever, log in there, and then pull the content from lemmy.world? That somehow helps with the load?
Lemmy is decentralized but completely connected together. I am on lemm.ee but I can still subscribe and comment to Lemmy.world or any number of other communities. The website you type in to visit Lemmy doesn’t matter. All Lemmy instances go to the same place. OP is arguing that a large centralized instance is bad which I don’t think anybody can disagree with. Lemmy.world has been down like every day. Tons of stability/DDOS issues but that only affects communities/users localized on that instance. Problem is that’s like half of the active Lemmy users right now.
Right but that doesn’t answer my question, is he literally just suggesting people go somewhere else?
To move somewhere else doesn’t mean to lose your subscriptions in the context of lemmy. What he means is if your main account on lemmy.world and it’s down, you won’t be able to (temporarily) access both your account(=your subs) and lemmy.world’s communities, while if your account on smaller (more stable) instance, it would only affect you by losing access to lemmy.world’s communities, but other subbed communities would still work/appear in your feed.
Hope that explains it.
Ahhh gotchya thanks!
There are these instance migration tools you can use to get things over to your new account.
GUI: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim
Even decided to run my own instance! Power to the people!
Jokes aside, my server can handle 10 or so more people. So if someone is looking for a new home… waste-of.space.
Hello fellow self hoster!
Did you get email to work :-D ?
What’s your hardware?
Cheers!
Hello there!
I’m running Lemmy via Lemmy-easy-deploy on Hetzner (so self-hosted as in: via a provider). E-mail is working via smtp2go and is indeed active :)
too bad the ‘other’ lemmy world is spammed by communist propaganda
lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works (both more that 2k users), sopuli.xyz, reddthat.com (600 users). None of them has any communist propaganda.
The other lemmy world?
@lemmy.ml
Too bad this Lemmy.world gets spammed by rightwing propaganda.
And you can easily copy over all your subs/communities using Lasim, so the change to an account on a smaller instance is almost transparent.
Thanks for making this post, I feel like it can’t be repeated enough. People sit on Lemmy.world instead of creating an account somewhere else where they can literally read and comment on previous posts from Lemmy.world, and then it all gets synked when it’s up again.
It’s like email guys - the entire global email system doesn’t stop because your company email server has technical issues.
I moved to a smaller instance today. One thing that I’ve noticed that isn’t the same, is the Top All Time is showing different posts and vote counts on certain subs. I think I’ve noticed it only happens in the subs that I’ve interacted from the small instance for the first time. Or, if someone from my small instance interacted with it last week, there will be 7 days of history, but nothing beyond that. IDK if that’s true or not, just what I’ve observed today.
I’ve subscribed to all the same communities as when I was on lemmy.world, but my feed seems slower and quieter.
You are using lemmy.today, which as 12 monthly users based on https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list (the 1m column)
I would suggest trying out lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works (both more that 2k users), sopuli.xyz, reddthat.com (600 users). The previous link is usually a good way to find an instance that is populated, but not too much (the obvious bad choice being Lemmy.world)
Not an option for me yet. Especially after I found out some instances federate messages slowly. Like up to an hour late slowly.
There isn’t any significant delay in the top 10 instances: https://aftershock.lemmy.management/public/dashboards/oT7pdcoeHWccpvZCNmTpJKoGZND8ZdRO3wDWpMug?org_slug=default
The only exception is dbzer0, but I guess they are upgrading at the moment
But this post is about smaller instances. Not the top 10
OP mentioned moving to Lemm.ee, which is top 5
That hasn’t been my experience. Unless 18.3 recently changed the situation.
