There are many lemmy instances in the world, but currently most people are using lemmy.world. This is why everything has gotten so slow.

You don’t have to delete your lemmy.world account, but check out https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map it’s a geo-based map of lemmy instances – explore stuff nearest you, pick one, sign up, search , subscribe and begin interacting with your favorite communities. It’s easy, free and it will be faster. Try it!

  • @bluesydney
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    571 year ago

    An export/import for “subscribed” communities would encourage a lot of people to do this.

  • Playingwithethenew
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    251 year ago

    I am planning on moving to lemmy.blahaj.zone soon-ish but I have 2 questions.

    1. How do I move to another instance?

    2. Can I move freely? For example, could I switch to lemmy.blahaj.zone to lemmy.world to kbin.social every day? I don;t like the idea of being “tied down” to an instance for a long time.

    • wrath-sedan
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      241 year ago

      As far as I know, account migration from one instance to another is currently not possible on kbin/lemmy but with the sudden influx of users and developers I believe it is on the roadmap for at least kbin and likely lemmy too. For now you’ll have to use multiple accounts, but eventually you should be able to migrate if you choose to.

      • Playingwithethenew
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        121 year ago

        I may wait until that becomes possible, although if the wait is long, I’ll make a new account.

        • wrath-sedan
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          71 year ago

          Yeah do whatever you decide is best! No right way to do it. Some have suggested just considering accounts temporary as we all experiment with what works best until more features are rolled out. But I know I’m already attached to my existing accounts and reluctant to make more.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      151 year ago

      you can have accounts on multiple instances, go ahead and sign up. your info is NOT transferred, so you’ll need to re-subscribe to your communities, and your posts stay on the instance you wrote them from.

  • @d_cent
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    251 year ago

    Wouldn’t this put me at risk of that smaller instance defederizing and removing everything I contribute while logged in to that instance?

    • @[email protected]
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      This is whats kind of not clear to me. While its clear what the benefit is for lemmy.world or some instance you move from, its less clear what the benefit for the individual moving is such as myself. I have more risk, its a hassle, the smaller server might itself get overloaded or break. Sometimes it feels ‘safer in numbers’. Unsure. Feels like I would be best off if everyone else moved and took on the risk while I stayed and reaped the benefits of them reducing the load rather than me doing it.

      • @[email protected]
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        161 year ago

        Someone explained it a little better in another post. It will not erase my content. So if I’m logged in under my lemm.ee account but post on a lemmy.world instance. If for some reason lemm.ee got defederized, my post or comments would still be there at lemmy.world I would just not be able to use my lemm.ee account going forward.

        It seems like this is the way to go like OP says

  • @gunslingerfry
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    251 year ago

    Yeah. This is all I see: Software: Lemmy Signups: no

    As long as this tool includes people’s personal instances, it’s useless.

    • @MBM
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      111 year ago

      “Signups: no” can also just mean that your sign-up will be checked manually, like on older instances like beehaw and sopuli

      • 🇺🇦 Max UL
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        91 year ago

        Yeah they really need to update that binary presentation. Our instance says no registrations, but we do have them open, you just gotta pass the requirements: email, sign up question and captcha.

  • @app_priori
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    211 year ago

    I would add that the risk of joining a small server is that the owner can suddenly delete them at any time and you would have to start all over again elsewhere. Best thing to do is to make an account on the large instances only.

    • Muddybulldog
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      251 year ago

      Lemmy.world has only existed for a month. Why the confidence that it’s here to stay?

      • @Coelacanth
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        1 year ago

        It’s run through the Open Collective, and is also run by Ruud who runs one of the larger Mastodon instances as well as some other stuff on the Fediverse I believe. They’re a fairly trusted actor in the space and I think pretty transparent with everything they do which is probably another reason many people flocked there.

        • Blóðbók
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          51 year ago

          Open Collective is a funding platform unaffiliated with l.w

          • @Coelacanth
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            You’re absolutely right, I had completely misunderstood its involvement for some reason. Still, Ruud’s experience in the Fediverse running mastodon.world gives me reason to believe lemmy.world will be reliable too.

        • Muddybulldog
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          51 year ago

          I’m a little confused by your comment. What function does Open Collective serve other than simply as a fiscal host?

          • @Coelacanth
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            A reliable pipeline for donations, transparency and experience running large Fediverse servers (EDIT: list of Fediverse servers run by Ruud). You’re right that they’re not directly involved in running the server, I had misunderstood that and thought they were directly associated for some reason.

    • poVoq
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      There is a very large range between tiny instance that can disappear overnight and “large instance”. The large instances are actually more likely to disappear as their hosting costs are beyond what a small group of admins can pay out of their own pocket easily, so they vitally depend on donations and that can break down easily for many reasons.

      • @app_priori
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        61 year ago

        I disagree. The large Mastodon instances have managed to survive for a while on donations. I haven’t seen a large Mastodon instance go kaput (though you can correct me if I’m wrong).

        • poVoq
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          51 year ago

          There were certainly some that had to close registrations as their donation base was insufficient for the number of users trying to sign up. And others were sold to very questionable companies as they couldn’t finance themselves otherwise.

          But that wasn’t my argument. We are talking about things that can go wrong with instances. Just because you didn’t see any large instances go down in this “nice weather” period, doesn’t mean they are resilient to serious shocks.

          A small to medium sized instance that is basically run as a hobby by a few admins and is optimized for being cheap enough to not need donations is the much more sustainable and resilient instance.

          • @app_priori
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            21 year ago

            Yeah but then you run into the risk of federation/defederation politics. We’ve already have had a major instance defederate.

            • Blóðbók
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              That is why you would want to choose an instance that aligns with your values, so that if they defederate, it is to your benefit.

            • Spzi
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              11 year ago

              How is this related to instance size? There are large instances which defederate (I think most do), and small instances which do not.

              If anything, I’d see it as an argument for joining small ones. There, your voice can have a bigger impact on federation decisions.

              Mostly I think if you care about federation status, be sure to join an instance with a federation policy which you like.

    • KSP Atlas
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      31 year ago

      Mine has existed for a few years now, so I’m fairly confident it’ll exist for more

  • @[email protected]
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    181 year ago

    Really good advice.

    The more we decentralize, the less any one server needs to pull all the load.

  • @taihen
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    181 year ago

    The only instance in my country has “cult” as the 1st word in its name.

  • @_cerpin_taxt_
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    151 year ago

    So can I just start running my only instance on my home server and just let only a few friends use it, then federate with the rest?

  • @IceQuest
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    deleted by creator

    • @RGB3x3
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      171 year ago

      Community discovery on Lemmy so far feels incredibly difficult. Even browsing “all” I feel I get the same 10-15 communities in rotation.

      How am I supposed to find the medium-sized communities about specific subjects that don’t end up on “all?”

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      As far as I understand, your instance is only aware of a community on another instance if at least one user on your instance has subscribed to that community on the other instance. Perhaps that’s what you’re experiencing?

    • @RGB3x3
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      21 year ago

      Community discovery on Lemmy so far feels incredibly difficult. Even browsing “all” I feel I get the same 10-15 communities in rotation.

      How am I supposed to find the medium-sized communities about specific subjects that don’t end up on “all?”

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I just put the url in the search box on the Lemmy webui sand search. I find a lot of the time it says nothing found but if I click search a second tinder it finds it so it must be a bug. Then click the community and subscribe.

  • Rikudou_Sage
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    151 year ago

    If someone’s looking for an instance, feel free to use mine, lemmings.world. As a bonus, you can call yourself a lemming! It’s hosted in Germany.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    I started on lemmy.world but am currently writing this from discuss.online, a lemmy instance I found in the greater NYC area because that’s where I’m based. It has the same access to all the communities and content that lemmy.world does and because it’s nearby and has fewer users it’s fast! Signing up and setting up my subscriptions only took a few minutes. I still have a lemmy.world account, but I don’t need to use it all the time.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Hi fellow discuss.online person!

      I’m finding it has zero issues out here in Utah too. Just hoping it grows some additional communities outside of nerf for my local feed 😂

  • FinalBoy1975
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    lemmy.world was an instance I tried and call me an impatient spoiled brat, but it’s not usable for me because it’s so darn slow. It’s much better to join a smaller instance. It doesn’t even have to be in the country you’re connecting from. sh.itjust.works is in Canada, I am in Western Europe, it’s snappy AF. And less toxic btw. kbin.social is pretty awesome, though. Loads up for me nice and fast with more content I want to see. I’ve settled on kbin as my place to go, but there are other instances that are just as fantastic. The lesson I learned: lemmy.world might be the big general instance and it might wish to claim to be “the front page of the internet” but it’s bogged down and too slow. It also wasn’t fun for me when I could actually use it. You know, because of the usual. Too much bickering and too much meta stuff. It’s much better to join the communities hosted on lemmy.world from another faster instance. You get snappier loading up of content and you avoid their whole home page which, at the moment, is just a meta victim.

  • Xyre
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    81 year ago

    I think the concerns about smaller instances are valid (as I post from lemmus.org). Some additional data points to consider when evaluating an instance would be whether they’re running a recent version and the uptime of the instance.

    It’d probably be a good idea to have a page that promotes these smaller instances that ‘score’ well to help distribute some of the load.