they’ve had a buggy day it seems, all their posts are getting quadrupled…
People be forgetting the entire point of decentralization and recommend a single overloaded instance when everything’s connected anyway 😔
Join and recommend smaller general instances like lemm.ee, vlemmy.net, and lemmy.one at random instead. Smaller servers have been upgraded for the surge of users too you know
Join and recommend smaller general instances like lemm.ee, vlemmy.net, and lemmy.one at random instead. Smaller servers have been upgraded for the surge of users too you know
That was basically my logic when I joined lemmy.world a few weeks ago. Oh well…
The things is that most people who join Lemmy don’t understand the premise at first so they join the ones with the most people, at least that is what happened to me, it is only after I used Lemmy for awhile that I understood how everything worked
I initially thought that you can see other instances posts but you can’t comment or post there unless you had multiple accounts to every single one, but no you can cross post and comment, which even if it was like that it would still be better than using reddit.
My logic behind joining lemmy.world was that defederation may be an issue, current or future, therefore it made sense to join the one that for one has the most people, and for two is the least likely to be defederated or randomly defederate others.
Granted, I believe beehaw did in fact defederate .world, and I think it was not long after, so maybe I did choose poorly.
I was tempted to join feddit.uk, but I wasn’t sure if that would put the unnecessary identifier of “This guy’s probably British!” on me everywhere I go.
We really need to build tools that maker it easier and more obvious for people to do that. We can’t punish people AFTER they have an account. Instead the signup process on overloaded servers needs to change
I think we need accounts themselves to be decentralised so you can move your user between instances
Then we could have each instance automatically load balance with other instances it federates with, if it’s overloaded it could just forward users to another instance
I think as long as we have the concept of users choosing one specific instance themselves we’re going to have problems with everyone going to 2 or 3 mainstream ones
It would help if overloaded instances closed signups, then they would be unlisted from join-lemmy.org
My reasoning was that it would be easier to find new communities passively (instead of searching for them) in the instance with the highest member count.
Joined today and it is laggy. Is this just a lemmy.world issue? Might sign up to a smaller instance if so.
It’s having federation and stability issues right now because it’s so ridiculously big.
Lemmy hasn’t yet been optimized to handle so many users on a single server.
And yeah, the discoverability/finding communities to join is the weakest part of the Fediverse right now. You have to go to lemmyverse.net to search for communities across all instances and see their actual total member count, which isn’t very user friendly and needs to be integrated into Lemmy itself like this GitHub issue says
Lemmy.World is just not loading anything right now so I’m glad to not be on the overloaded instance!
I was really asking myself why this happens, seems like you gave me an answer
I also think their server is in Europe which explains why a lot of my other accounts comments were being duplicated or not loading cus I’m on the west coast of the US
