Whether you are a Reddit refugee (I am one) or just randomly stumbled upon Lemmy and decided to join lemmy.world, welcome to the Fediverse.
If you have been here for long enough and settled in and now finally feel comfortable with Lemmy, I highly advice you to move to smaller instances. I just newly left Lemmy.world to join Lemm.ee.
We need to capitalize on the decentralized nature of the Fediverse and Lemmy instead of having everyone joining one instance. This will benefit the admins of Lemmy.world a lot as they would not have to deal with such a high amount of users. It also leaves room for new users to join and have a good experience rather than an experience filled with server outages where they will give up on Lemmy.
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Lemmy.world’s issues at present are due to DDOS attacks, not high user count
There are these instance migration tools you can use to get things over to your new account.
GUI: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim
One problem I foresee with smaller instances is discovery. As we know, if someone creates a new community somewhere else, your instance will onlyrecognise it once someone searches for it.
On a large instance like lemmy.world, there’s a good chance that someone else did, and you can stumble upon it by browsing /all. On a smaller instance this may not happen unless it’s set up to discover and thus mirror every community everywhere.
That’s why I populated /all with Lemmy Subscriber Bot
Interesting!
There’s a script for instance operators to run to fix that but I don’t have the link on me
Can we make a thread of these smaller servers that are open to new registrations?
If I may start: I am running communick.news, which is one of the many Fediservice servers that I provide on Comunick. The first 250 registrations on communick.news server will be free forever, after that access will be only for paid customers. At the moment, there are ~30 slots taken.
To register, just sign-up and in the “application” question just let me know how you found out about the instance.
Users concentrating on large servers benefits all the servers where content lives by reducing the number of connections they have to make to update data. Large user servers also act as a cache for the content, reducing storage duplication. Finally, large user servers improve the UX for the Fediverse’s biggest weakness: figuring out how to get your instance to talk to a community on another instance.
Meanwhile, the current situation is helping the developers refactor the software to scale to actual large user bases - the tens of thousands of users on Lemmy.world do not constitute a “large” user base by any internet-scale metric. It also concentrates the DDOS jerks on a target with the skills and resources to fight back. Finally, small servers going offline are a substantial burden on the instances that remain.
Big, robust, secure instances for users, smaller distributed instances with limited direct access for communities. That’s the real practical architecture for Lemmy.
It would still be better to have multiple “large” servers, instead of only one or two, which is currently the case. I really don’t think that it is a good thing to have a big difference between the biggest and the next biggest servers, as it effectively centralizes the content around the biggest instance.
I however agree that it doesn’t make sense to have tons of tiny instances.
I keep saying that the US needs to have its own big instance (or several) to host all those communities about US cities and sports teams that nobody else needs to care about, as well as potentially a good chunk of users and to exist as a large server alternative to lw.
People who see it this way are likely not from the US.
People who could make it happen must be from the US.
:-/
That’s exactly what I thought when I signed up. Well not in those terms because I didn’t know much vocabulary for it then. But in general I like underdogs, so I went with a smaller one. I have no idea how big any of them actually are, but I know the big 2, and a handful of other common ones.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
Use 1m column for monthly active users
Don’t see a 1m column, but the users count column gave me some context.
You need to use “All columns”
I get irritated when browsing and a message is on another server and it asks me to log in again. Starting to make me mad.
Im new, what do you mean by message being on another server? Do you mean a post?
Suppose someone sent you a lemmy link like this:
lemmy.example.com/post/12345.Now, you have an account on another instance called
lemmy.test, also logged in and want to comment. But opening the original linklemmy.example.com/post/12345still treats you as being unlogged, because it looks logins fromlemmy.example.com, notlemmy.testor any other federated instances.The solution, for now, is to use the search* function from your instance (
lemmy.test) by pasting the original link (lemmy.example.com/post/12345). That gives you a URL that’s compatible with your login inside your own instance:lemmy.test/post/98765.You can do this (or rather, have to do this) with communities or user links too.
I heard there are browser extensions doing this automatically, but haven’t tried. Mobile apps should have better support.
* Edit: I remember being able to do this but now its not working. Perhaps something changed? I recommend using browser extensions or mobile apps that should take care of this automatically.
Edit 2: I realized how to obtain the actual working link.
there are browser extensions doing this automatically
I don’t think that’s technically possible, or it would require a substantial effort. Comments and posts are stored with an instance-specific ID. There is no nice way to determine if this ID matches an ID on another instance.
I would be very happy to learn I’m wrong on this one. So if anyone knows a solution, please let me know.
This is the one I’ve seen https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant
Yes
What about the instances I created on Lemmy.world? Will I be able to moderate them from other instances?
You mean communities?
I’ve created the communities on Lemmy.world already, can I add moderation permissions to another account on another instance or am I required to moderate Lemmy.world communities/forums on Lemmy.world?
you can mod users from other instances
So that means I can add moderator permissions to users on other instances?
Yes
I’m not sure I understand. If I joined lemmy.world and subbed to stuff I like that has enough users to be interesting you’re saying, unsubscribe from those and join a different one with less users? I don’t know how that’s supposed to work?
Or are you saying join a different sever, log in there, and then pull the content from lemmy.world? That somehow helps with the load?
Lemmy is decentralized but completely connected together. I am on lemm.ee but I can still subscribe and comment to Lemmy.world or any number of other communities. The website you type in to visit Lemmy doesn’t matter. All Lemmy instances go to the same place. OP is arguing that a large centralized instance is bad which I don’t think anybody can disagree with. Lemmy.world has been down like every day. Tons of stability/DDOS issues but that only affects communities/users localized on that instance. Problem is that’s like half of the active Lemmy users right now.
