YSK: If you want faster and less buggy User experience, move to a smaller instance that is hosted close to you.

I have been using Lemmy for 20 days, at first I opened an account at Lemmy.world because you can join without writing a text and waiting approval. I have been enjoying the experience overall but despite the admin teans best efforts Lemmy.world has been experiencing some serious performance issues. If you want to avoid that join a smaller instance, preferably hosted in your country. I joined discuss.tchncs.de today and everything is so much faster it has added benefit of being able to see beehaw.org posts too. It will improve not only your but all other Lemmy.world users experience too.

cosmicrookie,
@cosmicrookie@lemmy.world avatar

I’m having trouble understanding how this works. If i create a community on a different instance, why can’t i find it here, even when i have the switch set to all? Do they only sync on certain times of the day? Also when i delete a community (that i created by accident) why does it not disappear?

johnnyjayjay,

Federation happens gradually and changes are usually not visible everywhere at the same time. Using a fully qualified name (or an URL like https://lemmy.world/c/community@instance) you should be able to access your new community though.

Im_old,

So if I host my instance but subscribe to communities on lemmy.world do I actually lessen the load on lemmy.world because it only has to deal with the API calls from my instance instead of having to serve me a full fat UI? (damn that was a long sentence!)

mausy5043,

move to a smaller instance that is hosted close to you.

How do I know the distance from an instance to me?

LufyCZ,

Can resolve the ip of the instance, then use an ip locator to get a rough distance

Im_old,

Check this out lemmy.fediverse.observer/map

trefirefem,

added benefit of being able to see beehaw.org posts too

Can you elaborate?

sockenklaus,
@sockenklaus@lemmy.world avatar

Beehaw.org chose to defederate some big instances like lemmy.world because the beehaw admins feel like they can’t moderate the inappropriate content entering their instance from big instances without proper mod tools.

They made a long post sharing their reasons but I can’t find it at the moment.

xaon_rider92,

I signed on to lemmy.world in June as that seemed like The Place, but now I’m thinking of switching to a lesser populated instance. I still haven’t found an instance that I like enough to switch to though. Right now, even with the performance issues, lemmy.world still feels like the most suitable instance for me.

sheepyowl,

You still need an extra acc onthebig ones if you want to usethe apps though. Not all instances are supported.

omgnvq,

Which app have you been struggling with? Both Jerboa and Connect worked fine with different servers for me, I’m guessing others are fine too

_MoveSwiftly,

Hello there, and welcome to our community! I hope you like it in here.

Could you please include some body text as to why should people know this, and how would that help them? It’s our second rule. Thank you :)

traveler01,

Was here thinking, couldn’t I host my own instance for my own usage?

qwamqwamqwam,

Oh, absolutely. I think that’s the ideal state, everybody hosting their own local instance for a couple hundred people, all indexed with everyone else. Long way to go before we get there though.

Cliffmode3000,

Won’t you see limited posts?

JohnDClay,

Not if they’re federated to the larger instances, which they are by default. I think maybe you need to search an instance to start if no one from your instance has searched for the other instance yet, but idk, don’t quote me on that

traveler01,

As far as I know, once instance and either see all its own communities and all other instance’s. So should be fine and you wouldn’t be causing load on instances used by people who dont have enough knowledge to host.

frozen,

I’m hosting a tiny instance for myself a few friends that serves as a reliable gateway to communities and content from bigger instances. Sign up approvals are limited, but I’m open to a few public users.

Currently email verification is enabled, but feel free to use a burner. This will be disabled in favor of captchas when 0.18.1 drops.

elboyoloco,
@elboyoloco@lemmy.world avatar

Isn’t 18.1 already live?

Books,
@Books@kbin.social avatar

Can I migrate my account to a new instance? Or will i have user logins all over the fediverse?

OptimusPrimeDownfall,
@OptimusPrimeDownfall@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

For right now, I believe there is no way to move a user account so you will need to create a new one. Can be the same name, tho!

I believe there is a feature in the works to be able to move accounts between instances but I am unsure of where in the development pipeline it is.

Books,
@Books@kbin.social avatar

Yeah, that will be nice if you can migrate your name to other instances... Cheers!

moohamin12,

How can I see if an instance is hosted in my country?

RecursiveDescent,

You can click the “use map” button on this site: fediverse.observer. But if you can’t find a instance that you like that is close don’t worry. Because server closeness doesn’t matter nearly as much as servers being overloaded.

Mr_Buscemi,

Holy crap there are at least 12 different servers within 50 miles of me. Some have a few thousand subscribers lol.

Gotta love Houston. Thanks for linking that!

JustSomeGuy,

What’s a good one if you’re in Toronto?

OsrsNeedsF2P,

sh.itjust.works or lemmy.ca

JustSomeGuy,

Thanks

Strive7307,

Definetly good advice! :) Thanks you for recommending discuss.tchncs.de

FunkyClown,

Close to you? I’m running my own instance in France and I live in Australia. It works great. The problem is overloaded instances.

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