You must log in or # to comment.
deleted by creator
Thanks for the reply.
New users are encouraged to signup on other instances.
Yeah, I don’t get why people want to sign up to the “big” instances. Noone is missing out on anything by having a smaller home instance.
Hell, it’s a better user experience since it’s not overloaded and down half the time.
In short, simply lemmy has been slowly growing by tiny amounts for a year… but it hasn’t gotten nearly ready for major growth. Then reddit of course did the huge things causing lemmy to grow at 10x it’s normal predicted amount, and because it’s especially people from reddit, many of which don’t really understand federation yet. They assumed joining the main instance is the way to do it. (rather than understanding that almost all instances can communicate with eachother).
In short it’s a perfect storm for excessive growth on too small of a segment. on a network that wasn’t prepared for the sudden increase in demand.
I appreciate your comment.
Signup for lemmy.ml is closed. When signup is disabled, there is no error message and the circle will spin indefinitely.
Thanks for the reply.
