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I’ve been having a lot of lag on lemmy.world lately, moreso during certain times of the day. I’m not sure if this is because of geographic location or just burden on the server.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list shows a list of all servers and their uptime but does not give how long a server has been online. Uptime is a somewhat unreliable measure of reliability because they might have only been online for a day.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map gives the closest server but most local servers have only 1-4 users and there is no way to gauge whether those servers are reliable or trustworthy.

Is there a tool to find the closest server with a reliable uptime over a period of months with at least >100 users?

    • laverabe@lemmy.worldOP
      52·
      11 months ago

      why would i be volunteering? I’m having lag problems with the server because of it’s geographic location in the Netherlands, what does that have to do with volunteering as a mod? lol

      • solrize@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 months ago

        The volunteer opening I linked is for a junior ops engineer. There is a separate opening for a mod. The ops engineer position is to help keep the servers running. If you want a server to stay reliable, you need people doing that.

        • laverabe@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          11 months ago

          ah. But at the same time it would be good if Lemmy was not as centralized on a single server. Lemmy.world is most of Lemmy at the moment, and when it goes down almost every other server is a snapshot frozen in time.

          I think it would be good if there were better tools to find closer servers (like geographically <1000km ) and to spread the fediverse out a bit.