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Spread Out: How To Speed Up Lemmy (lemmy.fediverse.observer)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are many lemmy instances in the world, but currently most people are using lemmy.world. This is why everything has gotten so slow.

You don't have to delete your lemmy.world account, but check out https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map it's a geo-based map of lemmy instances -- explore stuff nearest you, pick one, sign up, search , subscribe and begin interacting with your favorite communities. It's easy, free and it will be faster. Try it!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

I tried to migrate to another instance by rejoining the same communities as this account. However I can't seem to find some of the communities anymore through the other instance's search page. There's no indication that there's any defederation going on.

I still have no idea what a proper community joining process is. I just go to the search page, type it in and scroll through the random comments until I find a link to a community.

If only I could just copy the community link, right now it'll just open up with lemmy.world again, so I have to go through the other instance's search page. Please let me know if there's a guide of any kind.

Edit: Ok you need to manually type the URLs. E.g. if you wanted to open this community on lemmy.ml, type "lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]"

That's a kinda clunky experience ngl. How is the average normie going to feel about appending URLs in the address bar tho.

[–] Pleonasm 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As far as I understand, your instance is only aware of a community on another instance if at least one user on your instance has subscribed to that community on the other instance. Perhaps that's what you're experiencing?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's interesting.

I'm fairly new and I'm not seeing a lot of chatter about the limitations of Lemmy / other fediverse applications.

I don't suppose you can point me to where you learned this and/or other information on how information is shared between instances?

[–] Pleonasm 3 points 1 year ago

Sure, I also have been trying to learn about how Lenmy works. I haven't yet found a comprehensive overview that details everything though.

From https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/federation_getting_started.html

If you search for a community first time, 20 posts are fetched initially. Only if a least one user on your instance subscribes to the remote community, will the community send updates to your instance. Updates include:

New posts, comments Votes Post, comment edits and deletions Mod actions

From: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/01-getting-started.html

These previous ways will only show communities that are already known to the instance. Especially if you joined a small or inactive Lemmy instance, there will be few communities to discover.

This issue/post on github has some info: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3062

I would also checkout some discussions on [email protected] [email protected] https://selfhosted.forum

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