Well, don’t flock to the same servers all the time. Check out join-lemmy.org or one of the other instance lists. My instance (social.fossware.space) still has plenty of space. 😅
I know right? Lemmy.ml was struggling a lot when I first joined, so I switched instances to my current one when it was a lot smaller. It made a life of a difference.
I hope people won’t get scared away from Lemmy just because of server issues, all this traffic means there are lots of new users coming in and I wish they all stay.
Lemmy reminds me in a big way of the internet in 2000s, things are still being set up and figured out. It’s going to be a while till there’s a reliable and polished experience and that’s actually a good thing. It takes time to build something great and there’s a lot of a learning curve.
Patience is a good thing to practice now and hopefully the new user base can find the great things we’ve seen with Lemmy and have some patience as things stabilize.
We shall
I hope the admins upgrade the servers. :/
The admins on many instances already went through an upgrade cycle about two weeks ago to account for the first influx of ex-redditors.
Some of them may already be at their maximum ability/affordability.
I think others in the thread are correct that moving to different instances will probably help reduce some of the overhead that’s slowing things down for many.
I agree, the thing is I already have an account on different instances. But, I have to subscribe to the communities I like all over again. If there was way by which if we could migrate our profile, it would be great IMO.
I’m pretty sure an account migration tool is on the roadmap, but it may take a while. I’m waiting for that before I make different accounts.
I hope they roll it out soon because there will be a lot of people coming in and it would also ease out the process.
I really want Lemmy to work. So many devs, so many people working together really makes me want Lemmy to be successful, even if it is at a small scale.
Donate!
You gotta give.
A Lot of people give
You gotta give.
Lemmy’s would benefit from scaling horizontally (more instances) instead of vertically (bigger instances)
Not necessarily. New users gravitate towards established, large instances, such as lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. Expanding horizontally would just create a few laggy and overflowing instances, and a bunch of tiny instances no one uses.
And once the devs can’t maintain server costs, they should shut down new registrations.
There’s no need to charge for servers
Well, you have a point. Problem would be to get users to use the smaller instances.
I remember when I joined Reddit during the great Digg migration. Lemmy is handling this way better than Reddit handled that, so… Score.
The software industry has gotten so much better at designing and operating web apps that can scale quickly.
Apparantly, I don’t exist on some instances. And a comment I submitted earlier didn’t federate. Does anyone see this comment?
I can see your comment (lemmy.world). Might be a bug, or the influx of new users causing lags in some instances.
What was that?! Must have been the wind…
Sometimes it takes time, I remember my first fediverse experiments, I have lemmy and kbin accounts and commented on bith using both accounts. It works but some hiccups happen every now and then (specially now).
hiccups like double posting
No? :)
xD
Every lemmy.world user: “omg me”
I do! (I’m on mander.xyz)
I for one can neither see nor respond to your comment.
I see it on lemm.ee
Yes.
Also, is your username the first part of the time code from Fry’s ass?
What’s the secret of time travel doing on
Fry’s assmy username? 🤔Well it had to be somewhere
no
You bet, baby.
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This just sounds like a mess of incompatibility and errors. I don’t know how this is going to work.
Can you see my comment?
What are you talking about? You’re the only one here.
I can’t post or comment anything on lemmy.world this morning.
*Failure to post. May be risking double-post. I guess lemmy.ml is struggling too. Lol
This is where the Fediverse gets tested. Without a big corporate budget to bring extra servers online on a whim, balancing load during rushes is going to be difficult.
Then again, Reddit servers went down a lot and they’re big and corporate.
I can’t post or comment anything on lemmy.world this morning.
Yeppers. Double post!
Anchovies…
Arby’s
Well that’s the reason I didn’t create a lemmy account on popular instances 😆
Same! Also, nobody is going to defederate smaller instances.
Ive tried and failed to sign up to lemmy.world over the course of a week lmao. At least there’s plenty of other places to go out there
That’s the beauty of the fediverse. You’ll be with us no matter the instance plus, the lack of karma means making a new account on another instance is a tiny inconvenience. :) i likes it here. like we’re all in a big pot of stew with no chef to fuck it up. looking at you SPEZ… dickhead
As long as you have your content backed up that you don’t want to lose them yeah, switching accounts really isn’t that bad of a deal.
Plus you only need to change if your instance gets defederated or starts sucking for some reason. Otherwise you can post and comment on other instances communities. The only limitation is that you can’t create a community anywhere but your own instance, but why wouldn’t you do that already?
Shameless plug for the Mass Effect community on lemmy.world, I don’t moderate it but there aren’t that many people there and the communities on reddit were pretty sizable so hopefully we get some more users.
I still see votes on this site. Is this not the same as reddit karma? Sorry I’m a new lemmy user.
It’s near the same but the important distinction is that your user doesnt accrue or lose points. Just comments and posts have a score, not your profile. This should disincentivize karma removed.
Oh I see. Thank you for the explanation.
I said this on reddit when this whole fiasco started but I’ll say it again, “we’ll build it and they will come.” We laid the ground and foundation for lemmy and the rest will follow. We’re basically moses in the desert with a bunch of people coming behind.
We’re basically moses in the desert with a bunch of people coming behind.
Damn, no wonder my bush is burning. Here I thought it was just the clap.
test since apparently my instance can only receive?>>
coming through fine on world
Oooh really interesting. I checked !memes@lemmy.ml and it didn’t show but https://lemmy.world/c/memes@lemmy.ml does show!
