Somebody needs to give lemmy.ml some love
lemmy.world is amazing always up and smooth. When i first started lemmy when the exodus started from reddit i went to lemmy.ml I created an account and was wondering why it wasn't working all the time. Then realized the person hosting it isn't following or using good specs to handle the influx of users coming over. I think u/Ruud should talk to them.
I'm subscribed to some of lemmy.ml communities but it being down so much And if they don't get support fast I think they should just drop off and somebody should take over.
Just my own thoughts
speaking of "good specs" any docs beyond the ansible docs considered a good guide?
I think lemmy.world is in a great position because the admin has experience hosting decentralized platforms and already has a good pipeline to cover server costs because of that.
lemmy.ml is also the first instance that I joined. I don’t think lemmy.ml should drop off. Since it’s run by the lemmy devs I think they have their hands more than full at the moment, but I’m hopeful that things will stabilize eventually and they will get more financial support with the new users.
I think it’s important to have at least a few big populated instances that are “main” instances. I like what I see with lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, and beehaw.org. Personally I think it’s bad if we are too centralized on one instance or too spread out on a bunch of others. It seems like it’s going fairly well so far though, and I hope that when other big instances keep growing (and like I said get some more financial support from the community) they can improve their hardware too.
Sweet, Thanks for that. I don't think i will have lemmy.ml for my main instance since lemmy.world filled that void. but yea we should give lemmy.ml a chance. this influx of users migrating over was probably planned but not planned as how many will come over. IT will just get better and better. I actually woke up today and didn't even look for reddit, its deleted from my phone and all bookmarks are gone from my desktop. I was like. whats up with lemmy today :P
I woke up and did nearly the same thing!
Yeah! Lemmy.world is a better fit for me overall. I had joined beehaw.org after lemmy.ml asked users to try and find other instances to call home initially. I didn’t completely mesh with their server preferences. They are a great community though and I appreciate what they’re doing. I hope they keep growing as well.
There's already enough controversy with that instance.
Didn't know that. Wow, Im a n00b to lemmy and was just wondering why it keeps going down
My issue is that many large communities are on lemmy.ml but trying to subscribe to them from other instances isn't working for me, it's just perpetually stuck at pending.
Seems like they are more focused on fixing the code for the whole community (which is good) rather than their own instance right now.
I noticed that even thought it says pending if you look at your subscribed communities they are there. its probably some kinda hickup
I joined about 10 minutes ago, it was a tough decision. Do I go with a small server as an experiment? Do I go with a large one? What about self-hosting? I settled on this one after reading the post from the admin about upgrading hardware. My hope is that it will stick around, but that's the beauty of the Fediverse. You can always join another instance if the community doesn't work out for you.
This was exactly my reasoning too.
Beehaw was also tempting but has a lot of rules and disallows creating communities directly.
I decided to pick a smaller instance myself to be considerate, but I've noticed that not everything from other instances is coming through. Like right now I'm missing the post in here about Reddit forcing r/AdviceAnimals open. And every now and then I see a flood of new posts from other instances appear on my feed, but then if I refresh it's all gone again. I'm thinking of joining one or two of the larger instances too.
The flood when browsing all or if you have a ton of subscriptions is a feature that's going to be altered in the next version. It worked when submissions were coming in much slower. Now there is a ton of activity.
If you are trying to search for a community but it's not appearing try searching:
!CommunityName@InstanceName
This will tell the server to pull community and when you subscribe, that will make that community for everyone else on the server.
Oh, neat. I tried !de_EDV@feddit.de and nothing showed up at first, but then I tried just de_EDV again and now I see it and was able to join. Got some posts and now new comments are starting to come in. Looks like that worked!