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YSK: If you want faster and less buggy User experience, move to a smaller instance that is hosted close to you.

I have been using Lemmy for 20 days, at first I opened an account at Lemmy.world because you can join without writing a text and waiting approval. I have been enjoying the experience overall but despite the admin teans best efforts Lemmy.world has been experiencing some serious performance issues. If you want to avoid that join a smaller instance, preferably hosted in your country. I joined discuss.tchncs.de today and everything is so much faster it has added benefit of being able to see beehaw.org posts too. It will improve not only your but all other Lemmy.world users experience too.

cosmicrookie ,
@cosmicrookie@lemmy.world avatar

I’m having trouble understanding how this works. If i create a community on a different instance, why can’t i find it here, even when i have the switch set to all? Do they only sync on certain times of the day? Also when i delete a community (that i created by accident) why does it not disappear?

johnnyjayjay ,

Federation happens gradually and changes are usually not visible everywhere at the same time. Using a fully qualified name (or an URL like https://lemmy.world/c/community@instance) you should be able to access your new community though.

Im_old ,

So if I host my instance but subscribe to communities on lemmy.world do I actually lessen the load on lemmy.world because it only has to deal with the API calls from my instance instead of having to serve me a full fat UI? (damn that was a long sentence!)

maiion ,

For people still looking for an instance close to their location: lemmy.fediverse.observer/map

mausy5043 ,

move to a smaller instance that is hosted close to you.

How do I know the distance from an instance to me?

LufyCZ ,

Can resolve the ip of the instance, then use an ip locator to get a rough distance

Im_old ,

Check this out lemmy.fediverse.observer/map

trefirefem ,

added benefit of being able to see beehaw.org posts too

Can you elaborate?

sockenklaus ,
@sockenklaus@lemmy.world avatar

Beehaw.org chose to defederate some big instances like lemmy.world because the beehaw admins feel like they can’t moderate the inappropriate content entering their instance from big instances without proper mod tools.

They made a long post sharing their reasons but I can’t find it at the moment.

Yeah2206 ,

beehaw.org/post/567170

sheepyowl ,

You still need an extra acc onthebig ones if you want to usethe apps though. Not all instances are supported.

Mythril ,

? On all Lemmy apps I’ve used, you can just type the URL for the Lemmy instance your account is on, even if it’s not on the “default” list.

omgnvq ,

Which app have you been struggling with? Both Jerboa and Connect worked fine with different servers for me, I’m guessing others are fine too

_MoveSwiftly ,

Hello there, and welcome to our community! I hope you like it in here.

Could you please include some body text as to why should people know this, and how would that help them? It’s our second rule. Thank you :)

traveler01 ,

Was here thinking, couldn’t I host my own instance for my own usage?

qwamqwamqwam ,

Oh, absolutely. I think that’s the ideal state, everybody hosting their own local instance for a couple hundred people, all indexed with everyone else. Long way to go before we get there though.

traveler01 ,

I know this may not be popular but I may only host to myself. I have a VPS for my personal website and other projects that has some free processing power available (its a Hetzner ARM VPS, the cheapest), so I also need to figure out if Lemmy runs on ARM SoCs. I figure it must run since some people may try to run it on RPIs.

Poob ,

It’s absolutely your right to do so

yoichi ,

From what I understand about Lemmy, the only way to disable signups completely is by defederating. Meaning, you would not be able to view other communities from other Lemmy instances like .world or beehaw.

To get around this, you can switch to application signup like beehaw and just ignore/reject every application but this would also mean that anyone can view your instance as a guest. Like you can go to lemmy.world and view posts and comments without logging in

Atleast, that’s what I understand. Maybe someone can correct me if I’m wrong.

traveler01 ,

You can’t disable registrations from what I’m understanding but you can make them pending some approval. So in my case I’d just ignore any registration done.

Cliffmode3000 ,

Won’t you see limited posts?

JohnDClay ,

Not if they’re federated to the larger instances, which they are by default. I think maybe you need to search an instance to start if no one from your instance has searched for the other instance yet, but idk, don’t quote me on that

traveler01 ,

As far as I know, once instance and either see all its own communities and all other instance’s. So should be fine and you wouldn’t be causing load on instances used by people who dont have enough knowledge to host.

Riktastic ,

Page loads are snappy and lightning fast at laguna.chat :). Open signups and open for new communities. Hosted in Germany and GDPR ready. https://laguna.chat

Kissaki ,

In what way is it more GDPR ready than other instances? I assume it uses the same server software?

Riktastic ,

By having an actual policy. That lists the usage of data, 3rd parties and the responsibilities of the instance owner.

frozen ,
@frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz avatar

I’m hosting a tiny instance for myself a few friends that serves as a reliable gateway to communities and content from bigger instances. Sign up approvals are limited, but I’m open to a few public users.

Currently email verification is enabled, but feel free to use a burner. This will be disabled in favor of captchas when 0.18.1 drops.

elboyoloco ,
@elboyoloco@lemmy.world avatar

Isn’t 18.1 already live?

Stubborn9867 ,

It’s in release candidate (rc.9) so fairly mature but not technically released.

admin ,
@admin@thegarden.land avatar

Y’all are welcome over at thegarden.land we have a “growing” community

Books ,
@Books@kbin.social avatar

Can I migrate my account to a new instance? Or will i have user logins all over the fediverse?

OptimusPrimeDownfall ,
@OptimusPrimeDownfall@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

For right now, I believe there is no way to move a user account so you will need to create a new one. Can be the same name, tho!

I believe there is a feature in the works to be able to move accounts between instances but I am unsure of where in the development pipeline it is.

Books ,
@Books@kbin.social avatar

Yeah, that will be nice if you can migrate your name to other instances... Cheers!

tourist ,
@tourist@community.destinovate.com avatar

The best way Ive found is to copy the html of your community list and paste it into an online tool that pulls the hyperlinks out of it, then make an excel spreadsheet to change the URL of the community to the https format so it’s easier to search. The instances also aren’t 100% compatible. Like I can subscribe to kbin and Fedia on my larger instance account but not on my self hosted one.

OptimusPrimeDownfall ,
@OptimusPrimeDownfall@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Yeah, Lemmy being in a very “alpha” state makes some of the things a user wants to do difficult.

Monologue ,
@Monologue@lemmy.zip avatar

this post made me move instances and i am glad that i did, thanks!

moohamin12 ,

How can I see if an instance is hosted in my country?

RecursiveDescent OP , (edited )

Yup can click the “use map” button on this site: fediverse.observer. But if you can’t find a instance that you like that is close don’t worry. Because server closeness doesn’t matter nearly as much as servers being overloaded.

Mr_Buscemi ,

Holy crap there are at least 12 different servers within 50 miles of me. Some have a few thousand subscribers lol.

Gotta love Houston. Thanks for linking that!

infinity11 ,
@infinity11@infosec.pub avatar

Can you create Lemmy accounts on Mastodon servers?

Sev ,
@Sev@feddit.uk avatar

Yeah this doesn’t show lemmy instances? Only mastodon and other weird shit.

rain_ar ,

If you go to the drop down menu at the top, you can specify what you are looking for. Select “all” and Lemmy will be on the list.

HeHH1329 ,

From the map, there are 21 fediverse servers in Taiwan but none of them are Lemmy. There are even fewer in China (only 4 based on this map if I select “All” in the option).

AFAIK there aren’t any Chinese language content about Lemmy yet.

The center of Fediverse of Asia seems to be Singapore and Tokyo.

Also how can I know which servers are federated\defederated to most of the Lemmy instances?

RecursiveDescent OP ,

Servers are federated by default so unless it has been defederated by big instances you will have no problems. Important thing is instance you are joining having captcha/email verification because the ones without is suspectible to bot sign ups. So big instance might defederate with them to prevent bot attacks

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