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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]
 

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] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, I did not expect there to be servers so close to me! Thanks for sharing this

[–] qwop 3 points 1 year ago

Lemmy still feels pretty niche so I also found it surprising for me, although it probably shouldn't be, there are quite a lot and they have to be somewhere :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In FL, the only one here with signups open is not responding and has 56k members. The next closest one is the only one open in Atlanta and it's exploding heads. No thanks. Wish I had more options.

[–] riskable 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah we need a FloridaMan instance! I'll help set it up if someone else pays for it. I'm a card-carrying bearded Unix/Linux admin who knows how to exit vim 👍

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

What would something like that cost?

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

Exploding heads? I'm in GA, but also don't care about local stuff because I live in south. I just go for stuff outside that scope for a broader sense of what's going on.

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

The next closest one is the only one open in Atlanta and it's exploding heads.

yeah pass 💀💀💀

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are two things being discussed here. The first is the original suggestion of the account you'd log into and use as a server for pulling information. The other some have mentioned is the location of communities. They both share similar problems in an overloaded or defunct instance situation, but need different solutions.

For the account I think just one main thing needs developing, and that's the ability to share a profile across different logins. So you can have two or three different logins, but you have the same settings and when people interact with you they see you as the same umbrella/main account. I'm not sure how this could work outside Lemmy, like kbin or even Mastodon without being part of the protocol itself, but maybe that's a long range idea. There's also the problem of name collision since there's enough accounts now that duplication is probably a thing. The choice right now is limited to just making accounts in a few places and see if things are better/same/worse there before you get too invested with customizing your stuff.

For instances - I had seen a suggestion of having a grouping ability between different instances that wanted to share or mirror each others content, basically an automated cross-posting. This would allow multiple instances so if one has some problem, the content still exists. There's lots of caveats with that I'm sure, but one of the laments from many Redditors is the loss of resources, and that really should be a high priority to make sure that content is both preserved and available. For now the best we can do is make communities in a few places and cross-post the more important things so more people read and respond to it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is kinda neat. It would be awesome to be able to filter based on the attributes listed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I joined https://lemmy.myserv.one but I have to resubscribe to all my communities? How can you avoid this and have it automatic?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My local instance hasn't upgraded to 1.18, and it's 404-ing me when I tried to load this community in that instance. Another friction surface absent with this lemmy.world account of mine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You could reach out to your instance's admin, asking them where they are at with the update?

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