How To Speed Up Lemmy By Using An Instance Near You

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https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map is a geo-based map of lemmy instances -- explore instances nearest you, pick one, sign up, search , subscribe and begin interacting with your favorite communities. That's it!

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I tried to migrate to another instance by rejoining the same communities as this account. However I can't seem to find some of the communities anymore through the other instance's search page. There's no indication that there's any defederation going on.

I still have no idea what a proper community joining process is. I just go to the search page, type it in and scroll through the random comments until I find a link to a community.

If only I could just copy the community link, right now it'll just open up with lemmy.world again, so I have to go through the other instance's search page. Please let me know if there's a guide of any kind.

Edit: Ok you need to manually type the URLs. E.g. if you wanted to open this community on lemmy.ml, type "lemmy.ml/c/fediverse@lemmy.world"

That's a kinda clunky experience ngl. How is the average normie going to feel about appending URLs in the address bar tho.

Community discovery on Lemmy so far feels incredibly difficult. Even browsing "all" I feel I get the same 10-15 communities in rotation.

How am I supposed to find the medium-sized communities about specific subjects that don't end up on "all?"

How am I supposed to find the medium-sized communities about specific subjects that don’t end up on “all?”

Search by keyword:

Here's a curated directory: https://sub.rehab/

You can also checkout

  • /c/findacommunity@lemmy.ml
  • /c/communitypromo@lemmy.ca

As far as I understand, your instance is only aware of a community on another instance if at least one user on your instance has subscribed to that community on the other instance. Perhaps that's what you're experiencing?

That's interesting.

I'm fairly new and I'm not seeing a lot of chatter about the limitations of Lemmy / other fediverse applications.

I don't suppose you can point me to where you learned this and/or other information on how information is shared between instances?

Sure, I also have been trying to learn about how Lenmy works. I haven't yet found a comprehensive overview that details everything though.

From https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/federation_getting_started.html

If you search for a community first time, 20 posts are fetched initially. Only if a least one user on your instance subscribes to the remote community, will the community send updates to your instance. Updates include:

New posts, comments Votes Post, comment edits and deletions Mod actions

From: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/01-getting-started.html

These previous ways will only show communities that are already known to the instance. Especially if you joined a small or inactive Lemmy instance, there will be few communities to discover.

This issue/post on github has some info: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3062

I would also checkout some discussions on !fediverse@lemmy.world !selfhosted@lemmy.world https://selfhosted.forum

Community discovery on Lemmy so far feels incredibly difficult. Even browsing "all" I feel I get the same 10-15 communities in rotation.

How am I supposed to find the medium-sized communities about specific subjects that don't end up on "all?"

I just put the url in the search box on the Lemmy webui sand search. I find a lot of the time it says nothing found but if I click search a second tinder it finds it so it must be a bug. Then click the community and subscribe.