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There's a significant amount of discussion surrounding the issue of lemmy.ml servers reaching their maximum capacity. As someone who already has an account on lemmy.ml, what actions can you take? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Are the registry procedures causing the problem? Since most of my communities are on lemmy.ml, wouldn't I still be using lemmy.lm’s bandwidth? Or is it more crucial to ensure that the communities are distributed more evenly across different instances?

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

To get serious about distribution, I think there needs to be a few features implemented;

User migration. Allow people who find themselves on an overstuffed server to migrate to a different instance
Community grouping / merging. If there are multiple communities for the exact same thing, allow the mods to group them or merge them to not fracture the user base
User data import / export or cloud backup to a personal provider. If one day your server instance just disappears, it would be nice to know I have a backup of my user data, subscribed communities, saved posts and comments, and maybe a way to relink to my old posts and comments across the fediverse.

Just a few ideas I was thinking about that could possibly help users move around.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think we want communities to spread out more than users.

Unfortunately if the users are there then they create the communities. So really people just need to spread out.

Migrating means losing a few things you've made or commented on. We're so young that shouldn't be such a big deal yet though.

This l load balancing will have to be automated sooner or later (sooner hopefully) because it's gonna be problematic...

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