• Provoked Gamer@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • ibk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • jay@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • Hot SaucermanEnglish
      362·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • peef ಠ_ಠEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • Hot SaucermanEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          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.

          • peef ಠ_ಠEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            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.

    • psilves1@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 years ago

      Lemmy’s would benefit from scaling horizontally (more instances) instead of vertically (bigger instances)

      • AllGoesUpMustGoDown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • psilves1@lemmy.worldEnglish
          01·
          2 years ago

          And once the devs can’t maintain server costs, they should shut down new registrations.

          There’s no need to charge for servers

    • krische@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      The software industry has gotten so much better at designing and operating web apps that can scale quickly.

  • 001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    14·
    2 years ago

    Apparantly, I don’t exist on some instances. And a comment I submitted earlier didn’t federate. Does anyone see this comment?

  • VeedemsEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Lee Duna@lemmy.nzEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    Well that’s the reason I didn’t create a lemmy account on popular instances 😆

  • AnnihilatronV9000@lemmy.tfEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    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

    • ilickfrogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      2 years ago

      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

      • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • voxov7@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          2 years ago

          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.

  • Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • Hot SaucermanEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.