I really don’t think we want to get into an uptime competition with Reddit lol
Across all the federated nodes? I’d take that competition, that’s the point of the fediverse after all
What’s really cool is that content isn’t lost. As soon as those nodes come back, they get to fast-forward through all those queued updates.
What happens if the instance which hosts the community is down but other instances are online? I just made a post to a community on an instance that doesn’t exist anymore, but will other instances get that post, or is it reliant on the instance which hosts the community coming back online?
To be fair though, the chance that every Lemmy instance goes down at the same time is so much lower than Reddit going down. Sure, my instance might be unavailable, but I’d be able to hop onto the next one and continue.
Considering the distributed nature of the fediverse, the only way I could imagine the entire thing going down is either a botched update that everyone somehow manages to install at once, or a very sophisticated distributed attack.
Every time one instance is down, I switch to another. I’ve never seen it down completely.
…you were saying?
my experience is a bit different. when the instance with your account and subscribed channels is down, it’s just not a good experience
!? Future feature request for Lemmies : Backup and restore subscriptions to hop fast to another instance in case of downtime.
That’s the face I made about a week into trading Reddit participation in for Lemmy participation or just break-from-social-media time. Conversations feel more genuine, there’s less overbearing moderation (at least in my experience), and if there’s nothing new on Lemmy I’ve probably spent enough time reading forums anyways. I’m only keeping my 13-year-old Reddit account to keep track of old favorited posts and specialist forums like specific video game tips.
I can’t agree with you more. I have save posts, and niche subs (but I’m not active, I’d just hate to lose them). And on Lemmy I’ve never seen a thread with deleted comments only. There are less comments here, less people, but quality people.
My only problem is that all and every topic will be about politics or linux. While I’m all for being stuck in a little linux bubble, I hate the politics here. Some dislike the linux topics as well.
I miss niche communities, but the switch was well worth it.
Not installing the app to check lol
I mean, I’m on Mbin, but still though, lol
Why do you have the app?
Fedora Linux IT support for obscure things that break and other Linux and Windows subs because I kinda like to see what boneheaded mistake Microsoft will make next
Because unfortunately some things just didn’t transfer. /r/anime equivalents are dead as fuck. Same with game subreddits. Tv subreddits. Anything properly discussion based.
Lemmy is great for face value mindless reddit scrolling but let’s not pretend it’s some great dialogue for the vast majority of posts where people just want to share hobby interests vs shit post or politic post.
