Ha, I applied to two smaller instances and have heard nothing but radio silence. The smaller instances are of no help if they don’t let anyone in.

Unless it defederates like beehaw keeps doing.

I was on world at first because I thought each instance was its own subreddit, so I went with the one with the most users! After a day and a half I somewhat understand instances now and have switched to a smaller one. Hopefully other reddit refugees will do it too.

Thanks for being so welcoming and patient with us. I'm really glad to be here.

That’s where join-lemmy really missed out. They should have introduced a set of rules like join-mastodon where instances must have at least two admins, a clear code of conduct, and clear rules as to how they manage closedown. That way users would be reasonably safe in picking an instance at random. But they didn’t so everyone should go to safe choices like lemmy.world.

I only had luck making an account on my 3rd attempt, on sh.itjust.works

So signup for a smaller instance

Unless you want to create a community on that instance. You can only create communities in the instance you sign up.

I tried getting on both of those for a couple weeks. I could not get through on either. Found lemm.ee and have had zero issues.

The problem is that it uses WebSockets in a completely braindead way. There is absolutely zero reason to waste server resources on that for every single user. Of course it fails to scale..

But why do I have separate profiles for each instance? Is it because I signed up in three instances? Is the only way to rectify this, to delete accounts?

• https://lemmy.one/u/unknown_name

• https://lemmy.world/u/unknown_name

• https://lemmy.ml/u/unknown_name

What does it mean to say that Lemmy is federated?

What happens to the communities on lemmy.world and lemmy.ml if they’re no longer around? It seems like the most active communities are mostly on those two instances.

How does that work? Still confused.

The real magic is that you don’t even have to use Lemmy. You can use Kbin if you like that interface better.

That’s where join-lemmy really missed out. they should have introduced a set of rules like join-mastodon where instances must have at least two admins, a clear code of conduct, and clear rules as to how they manage closedown. That way users would be reasonably safe in picking an instance at random. But they didn’t so everyone should go to safe choices like lemmy.world.

Smoke signals would be better than the official app.

A surprisingly low bar

So true.

It's generally more like "Steve's 10 eur/mo cloud server in which they run ten other things next to Lemmy, which is written by two devs and barely held together by duct tape and prayers"

But that doesn't change the overall point.

Reddit's database was pretty poorly designed. They designed it to be really flexible so they could make changes easily early on, but it was highly inefficient. I don't know if it's still like that, but the old website's source code is public and it is very inefficient.

That’s been a shocker, yeah.

It really is a defining moment for Lemmy. If the devs can't adapt quickly enough to handle the traffic, I doubt many Reddifugees will stick around.

It's because sorting comments by "hot" prioritizes new comments more than old comments even taking into account votes. So a 3d old comment with 50 votes might appear below a 2h old comment with 5 votes. Unlike Reddit which just pushes the first comments to the top and anything new will drown in the sea of comments and never surface or be seen.

Question about this, is it just a speedier general browsing on other instances as well? Or just your local posts?

Looks like the app wasn't developed with a scalable architecture from the start, then they strapped some caching out of desperation when users started flocking, and didn't consider the invalidation parameters for private pages correctly.

I wonder if anyone has been me

Holy shit! It there a never tell me the odds community here? This fits like a glove

Here's Johnny!

Did you report this (on GitHub possibly)? That seems to be a fairly important bug for the devs to get their head around.

It's part of the charm :D

For real! Seems like everyone jumped ship and expects a flawless integration from Reddit. This tech is relatively new and provided by volunteers. Give it some time!

Having a hard time finding an active soccer community. The largest one only has a comment or two per post.

I'm looking forward it growing though. r/soccer 2010-2014 was my favourite internet community ever.

It's a nice app, but I'm really wondering who came up with that name and why. That's not how you name something if you want it to be successful.

I know this night sound like a dumb comment, but it's kind of worth thinking about.

Since it isn't an iOS app, they could probably make a version of it which isn't so iOS inspired, because frankly that layout is confusing to anyone who isn't used to it.

I know Apple have a way of doing things, and they're like apps to look a certain way, but if you're not used to it it's not intuitive at all.

Waiting for sync

That looks great, thanks!

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where do you get it?

I keep getting “cant load sever data” with this app. Is this just a lemmy thing or an app thing.

When does that go into effect? Performance for me is still shit.

Oh god

Only at midnight.

cries

You are my first upvote and this is my first comment

Nope. I'm trying to hold my poop for three days

Not anymore...

This is definitely going to be fun!

Unfortunately, if there's any hope of lemmy really taking off, they'll come eventually. All popular sites and services have to deal with it at some point.

I'd prefer the new redditors to the elitist ones, but well, what can I do.

This is definitely a sink-or-swim moment for Lemmy. If this is going to work, this is the chance. Twitter and Reddit are imploding. Users have a reason to try something new and are willing to deal with young, buggy platforms because it's better than the alternative and they needed an Internet home. My upvote taking ten seconds to register is itself the knife's edge of creation, a new birth.

If you move to a smaller instance, the issues will go away for you.

1. Yes, that's how federation works. Your local host may be faster than the instance you are browsing content on, especially if that other instance is getting hugged to death or DDOSed. But even if that is happening, the rest of the Fediverse works just fine.

2. No, instances are not mirrored. That's probably possible in activitypub (the protocol that Lemmy and similar Fediverse platforms use), but unlikely to happen due to server resources and funding.

Think of it as a bunch of forums on the Internet, where an account made on one forum allows you to comment and see content on other forums, but you don't need a separate account for all of them. Federation somewhat simplifies things, but there are drawbacks that I won't get into here.

Not an expert: On site loading no, but on propagating data across the fediverse yes, which is much more subtle. On my instance performance is great!

Comments/posts will federate much slower or even fail if theres alot of load on the other instances. Everything accessed from your instance is already federated and the content is located on your instance by that point, except for images

There will just be less posts, comments, voting than usual

I joined a smaller instance that more fits my interests, but is still federated with the "popular" ones I like. So far it works great.

It's funny seeing famiar usernames, heh.

It's speed largely depends on the instance you're connected to. There's definitely scaling problems going on with some instances.

Since all the instances are independent, it's going to be very difficult to recreate completely the experience of a corporate behemoth. But it's that independence which also give this platform true freedom and potential longevity, so the tradeoffs seem worth it. It should also be said that the load overall has gone up a lot since reddit just shut off the 3rd party apps officially, so we should see better results moving forward as things equalize after the rush.

you're on lemmy.world which is now the biggest instance and therefore is getting hit the hardest with the reddit exodos. You can either wait it out for lemmy.world to scale their server, or you can try a smaller instance with less load on it. In any case you can still reach the same fediverse regardless which one you choose (with some exception as some instance are blocked or deferated, for example lemmygrad.ml is defederated from a lot of instances due their political POV).

To be fair, lemm.ee has an entire order of magnitude less monthly users than world. I think it's at the perfect size, actually.

I prefer having to click on the image, but I keep wanting to resize it like with RES TT_TT

What are you using? I'm using connect for lemmy there's an option for card views. Idk if that helps you or not.

Gross

New reddit crops images that it displays, so you typically had to click on images anyways, though

That's where apps come in. tons of great ones already. I like memmy on iOS so far.

Damn bro chill, they were making a joke

i don't think this was intended as an entirely serious complaint.

personally i'm very impressed with how well it's still running right now despite the influx

Yeah on that note how do we help the instances so they can take more load is there like a way to donate or something?

Did you think redditors will stop moaning just cause they are in a new place? Bitching is universal as long as three or more people can gather around on some corner of the internet.

What are you talking about?

Perhaps the final Reddit hug of death?

So far our instance is running good and we have plans ready to scale up when needed. Our standard of performance that we will strive to meet at all times is extremely fast.

Join a smaller instance.

What instance are you signed up for? Lemmy.world and a few of the other biggest servers are pretty overloaded from the reddit influx. Moving to a smaller instance would belp with load times, or give it a few days for your server admin to upgrade it.

Yeah it happened to me yesterday, and probably on this same message too, it's not awful but hopefully they fix it over time. Crashing hasn't happened though. That could be anything at this early stages, even the phone model lol

Using Connect since jerboa is still very clunky and does crash a lot.