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.

firipu,

All fine and dandy, but don’t just pick a random one close to you. Don’t forget that the admin basically has all your info. So do your due diligence and make sure to check you agree with all their policies etc.

Dave,
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

Don’t forget that the admin basically has all your info

What info? Lemmy is a public forum - anyone can see anything you post. Many Lemmy instances don’t even require an email address to sign up.

nyakojiru,
@nyakojiru@lemmy.world avatar

Like if you are ginger or not

DrWeevilJammer,

Pfft - everyone knows you need a soul to get online

RecursiveDescent,

Yeah! of course when I say a small instance, I don’t mean a random instance with 10 users. You should check it out before you join. There is a lot of great instances with ~1000 users. Maybe should add it to the post.

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!

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.

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!)

_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 :)

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?

proudblond,

Do you have any advice on how to find one? Especially the “local to you” part?

varaki,
@varaki@lemmy.world avatar

You can check this list and find an instance hosted in/close to your country.

proudblond,

Thank you!!

Dr_Cog,
@Dr_Cog@mander.xyz avatar

Useful. From this I find my instance is hosted in Russia. I should probably find another one closer to me

gudtgwhzf,

Great advice. One thing to look out for is the language settings under the profile on that instance though. I also signed up to a new instance and my feed seemed less populated and more outdated. I noticed that the languages that I read were not checked in the profile. Once I changed this the experience was significantly better.

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!

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.

wqzwqz,

Is moving instances a thing or would you need to sign up from scratch?

RecursiveDescent,

Currently Lemmy doesn’t support account migrating but it is technically possible afaik. It might get added in future but currently you have to sing up from sracth. Hovewer I would say having a Lemmy.world account in addition is probably a good call.

ALERT,
@ALERT@sh.itjust.works avatar

There’s a script already in development by an enthusiast sh.itjust.works/post/693061

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

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

LemmyLeaveReddit,

Could an instance be hosted inside an app? In a container locally on your own machine? Maybe the two could be synced? One instance across all your devices synced?

That would be the safest?

theRealBassist,

As I understand it, you can host your own instance off a personal server, and use that as your “home” instance.

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