Why do the instances keep going down? It makes me think that this is not a reliable social network, but the alternatives are not as good.
Why do the instances keep going down? It makes me think that this is not a reliable social network, but the alternatives are not as good.
Lemmy.world is super big AND being attacked constantly. Smaller instances don’t have these issues and they are stable and fast. You can still subscribe to everything from Lemmy.world and your instance will remain up even when Lemmy.world is down.
I’m on lemmy.today and it’s fast and stable. Come join us and you will see.
Basically use the fediverse the way it was meant to be used.
I had no idea, just tried and you are right. Do you know if everything works the same, like moderation?
Yeah it’s all federated. If you get banned from a community on Lemmy.world, you will not be able to access it from Lemmy.today for example (with your lemmy.today user account).
This is the really super cool part about the fediverse. People don’t realize… This is where the magic is.
If Lemmy.world is down, you still access posts and threads and make posts etc from lemmy.today… And it all syncs when Lemmy.world is up again.
Another mind blowing moment is when you realize you can read and post on Lemmy from Mastadon… So you can combine interacting with Mastadon and Lemmy in the same conversion.
Very nice, although I guess most communities in an instance are moderated by users from that same instance.
Your instance only has two communities and they’re both about Lemmy. Seems a bit boring to me. Sorry.
You think theyre all siloed off from each other or something? I’m literally the only user on my instance and there is 1 community with 0 posts yet here I am, on another instance.
Local communities are totally irrelevant when deciding which instance should host your account.
I thought the point was to join communities. Am I wrong?
You can join any community on any instance from any other instance, as long as the admin hasn’t blocked it.
So I don’t get the problem then.
… exactly?
Someone pointed out an advantage of smaller instances and you were the one that said small instances have a problem (lack of communities), and I’m the one pointing out that your supposed problem does not, in fact, exist.
TL;DR small instance good
Okay.
Yeah it’s just getting started, and you can start new communities if you like. But no point starting ones that already exists on other instances.
The amount of local communities doesn’t matter much, Im subscribed to like 100 remote communities anyway. :)
But I thought multiplicity was the game.
I guess you need to do some more research on how Lemmy works.
You can follow any community from any instance. For now you could create an account at some lesser populated instances, I had one on lemmy.ml, made another account on monyet.cc. It’s a minor inconvenience that you have to subscribe to communities but other than that my experience with lemmy has been very good.