There’s only a few things I need to figure out and Lemmy can become a permanent home. Third party apps in development are all showing great potential, so I’m not worried about that. I’m currently using wefwef but have tested mlem and soon memmy and they are all great (or appear to be trending towards great).

  1. I’m on the Lemmy.ml instance. Are there any servers defederated from Lemmy.ml that I’m missing out on?

  2. Each page takes a few seconds to load, but sometimes much longer. Is that because I’m on Lemmy.ml, and if so, how do I find a server that would be quicker? Location based? User-count based?

  • cloudgazingEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Welcome! I’m still figuring this out myself, but I hope I can help.

    I don’t know how it works on each app, but if you go on the website and scroll all the way down there’s an ‘instances’ option that shows you every linked and blocked instance. Alternatively you can go to (yourInstanceURLHere)/instances and see the same thing.

    I believe the load times are because of the amount of people using/signing up on this instance. It’s going to get better when they upgrade the server, but you can make an account on another instance (I recommend doing that) and use that when you can’t use this one. You can see more servers on join-lemmy.org/instances or if you want more info/data on the-federation.info/platform/73

    • VisualCicadaOP
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      2 years ago

      Thanks for that trick about seeing blocked instances! I’ll have to go through a handful of blocked instances and see of there’s anything of value (probably not).

      I guess I’ll have find a secondary instance given the current loading times