I'm definitely seeing the benefits of belonging to a smaller Lemmy instance today.

I've gone and made accounts of a handful of Lemmy instances, all of them larger, more popular ones.

... and I can't access any of them directly today, likely due to the influx of users from Reddit.

Programming.dev is alive and well though.

pancakes 25 points 3 years ago

I think the fediverse will function the best if everyone is split across many instances. As soon as one or several become dominant, the way they do things becomes the norm, for good or bad. That and the server load of course.

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ironeaglebird 14 points 3 years ago

People just seem to flock to a few popular instances. The join Lemmy website needs to push harder for joining the instance that fits your interests.

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StackedTurtles 11 points 3 years ago

Does it make that much of a difference which instance you’re on? I created an account here, but I’m subscribed to communities across the entire fediverse. Defederation can of course come into play, but unless you create an account in each instance that fits your interests I don’t see it making too much of a difference where your account has its home.

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ironeaglebird 7 points 3 years ago

It doesn't really matter where you sign up, of course unless your instance is defederated. Users just tend to funnel towards a few instances, putting some strain on the instance's servers instead of everyone being more dispersed. Lemmy.world is pretty slow right now due to the influx of users going there.

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acardo 6 points 3 years ago

Could you explain a bit more? I am new to lemmy (reddit exile) and I thought the instances are like servers and they communicate between each other.

What do you mean by instance that fits your interest?

Thanks.

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ironeaglebird 6 points 3 years ago

It's more of a way to try to spread out the users and communities by interests. Also decreasing the server load for the instances. Instead of having 90% of the users and a majority of the communities on Lemmy.world that is basically having everyone centralized again and the website goes dark if their servers fail.

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kwerks 1 point 3 years ago

I signed up to my country's instance and lemm.ee instance. I like the lemm.ee mods

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