Yes I know they’re getting DDoSed, I’m just messing around
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Didn’t really have a choice if I wanted to use Lemmy!
I’m from Chile so i joined through feddit.cl 🇨🇱
we are the best country of Chile.
I always enjoy finding new instances!
I honestly I don’t get why people don’t just, y’know, join instances that are more local. It would solve the “everything’s in a different language!” Issue too because now the main foreign language is, y’know, one you speak.
Or - yeah I did the same I joined a Finnish instance because I live right next door and it seemed like the logical thing to do
and screw Denmark
Stop flocking to the core worlds, join the fringe! We have the same amenities… Only downside is browsing by All is less diverse
I look at lemmy.world all occasionally to get a sense of what I’m interested in but don’t know it yet. Then I subscribe to help expand the variety for everyone. Not that lemm.ee is all that small
Pretty much any of the top 5 instances already subscribe to each others communities. Definitely not missing out on lemm.ee either!
lemm.ee probably has a virtually identical /all to lemmy.world, right? They’ve got like 20k users
Virtually identical absolutely. But in my personal experience over the last few months, I see content that’s in lemmy.world that’s not on lemm.ee
For a while, because content was more thin, I’d run through all of active, then all of hot, then I’d look at lemmy.world just to see if there was content I hadn’t seen yet
Almost definitely, it’s hard to imagine there’s a community on lemmy.world that not one of the 20k users have susbcribed to
Well, as long as the server is decently large enough it should be fine Like lemm.ee or sopuli.xyz
Yes, Sopuli seems like a main server. Love it.
In my totally unbiased opinion you should join lemm.ee
No no no no no. We don’t want to people to join and enjoy our near 100% uptime. Also be warned that lemm.ee isn’t de-federated with lemmynsfw so you’ll get PORN on your all feed. The horror. Steer clear.
block the porn communities or disable NSFW, that’s what I did (at least before lemmy.blahaj.zone defederated from them)
So I don’t know enough about the inner workings, but on Reddit I never browsed all at all - it was 100% communities I’d subscribed to. At the moment I’m happy with Lemmy All, but if in the future when content gets too much, would I say, be able to host my own instance in my Android device and my subscriptions will just pull in the content I’m interested in? That way I am not putting load on other instances, and I can take my configuration with me without needing a cloud service?
My understanding is you can’t host your own instance on an Android device, you’d need a server. You could stand up a server on Oracle Cloud, their Always Free tier is pretty generous.
You can also just browse “subscribed” instead of all.
One can easily get around that by simply subscribing to more communities!
What are the few fringes here ?
Check out lemmyverse.net and look at instances
Can you explain this? Why? If I follow the same communities that in the bigger instance?
Your subscribed will be the same. All will differ as it grabs everything everyone on that instance is subscribed to.
Ex. If you’re on lemmyworld you’ll see everything there by default but if you swap to instance X and nobody in x is subbed to niche.community@lemmyworld then it won’t be brought to your All
Ok! I had misconception of “All” I thought that it shows literally All! Thanks for the explanation!!
Content fringe world inhabitant here:
Why is our All tab less diverse?
Is it not just dependent on how many instances your instance is federating with?
All is based on what people on that instance are subscribed to most, not just federation
Makes sense. It only pulls in what users on the instance subscribe to.
Thanks for clarifying!
The main issue is that Lemmy instances, by default, only know about their local communities and remote communities that the users of that server have deliberately subscribed to. Some smaller instances are running federation helpers which are bots that search for remote communities to fix this.
Thanks for clarifying. Makes sense
Good to learn about some of the piping underneath
You subscribe to individual communities. So unless a user or the admin already subscribed to a community there won’t be any content there from those communities.
Even after subscribing only new content (and old content that has had replies/likes) will show up.
what if every instance used the lemmy community seeder?
Sound off your instances folks! If you like pop music and
- You want to create pop music related communities
- You want to hang around other popheads
Come check us out at poptalk.scrubbles.tech. There are dozens of us here on Lemmy. Dozens!
Would be happy to join if there are not too many things defederated , specially the big communities ? I need my memes ??
I’m the admin, try not to defederate unless it’s necessary, like too many trolls coming into our instance and NSFW, because then I’m hosting it and I can’t do that.
But other than that I try to keep it open
Well thanks let me check ur instance
Getting a rate limit error when trying to sign up !
apparently enough people were in fact signing up! I have it at like, 5 a minute so bots can’t spam me. Raised it to 10, you should be good
I will try it soon again !
You got 30 whole users! That’s almost 3 dozen!
I have been here for months and still have no idea what this means
That’s probably a bad sign
Basically lemmy.world is the largest lemmy instance by a country mile, and so it keeps going down because of DDos attacks and just sheer load Maybe you haven’t noticed because the client/app you use just shows old posts until it can connect to the server again
The site you make your account on is your home server (instance). That server takes on the job of processing your data when you use lemmy. Your home server is lemmy.world, mine right now is lemm.ee
If a lot of people use the same home server, it gets expensive for the team running that server, the meme is about lemmy.world having issues with downtime because of this. You can have whatever home server you want and still access anything on the fediverse, so if you join a smaller instance as your home server, by literally making a new account on a different lemmy site, you can still use lemmy exactly the same (use your app to look at all instead of local) but spread the load so big instances like lemmy.world don’t have too much strain. Doing this is good for the long term health of the fediverse.
Honestly, given the current state of affairs I wouldn’t have it any other way.
The little time these turds spend attacking the site I call my mental health break from the madness.
That’s smart lol All it does for me is make me think I’m going crazy when trying to subscribe to a .world instance for the first time right after it goes down, since it doesn’t load
please delete this cousin
Yep! I made an account on my current instance after starting on one of the bigger ones. I still have my old one just in case. But now that some of the smaller communities I followed have started coming in it feels identical!
I also have an account on a larger instance, and I use this to back up settings and subscriptions Works on basically all platforms!
Yeah, I have heard of that and tried using it but I couldn’t get it to run. I just ended up doing it manually as I didn’t have that many communities anyways.
I get an error “ERROR: Cannot write file - profile_v2.json: Access is denied. (os error 5)” anytime I try to use it.
are you on Linux? maybe there is a permissions issue with that file / folder
I already did! Now what?
Hope that .world stops going down cuz half the communities are on there lol
Signups are open on my instance up to 100ish users. I run scripts to auto-federate popular content, so it’s pretty bumping.
Do you use LCS or lemony? Just curious
Both, actually.
I, personally, use Lemmony on my instance. It’s a solid tool.
I’ve been saving a shoebox for just this sort of occasion!
.world is so unstable that at this point its future is uncertain and I am ready to completely migrate either to beehaw or to some other instance.
I would move to a smaller instance (though I still check their /all on occasion). However, I wouldn’t choose Beehaw, as they’ve defederated from some large instances.
I created a lemm.ee account, and I might just mainly go on there instead of this one (or .world).
Performance on lemm.ee is pretty solid, world was my original instance but it’s just my backup now. Hopefully whatever vulnerabilities that are being used to DDoS them can be patched soon.
I’ve been pretty happy on lemm.ee. I had an account on .world but set this up when I had issues connecting, my original was .ml which I switched from for similar reasons. Here’s hoping lemm.ee can remain stable going forward, I’m trying to use the same username for consistency but its a pain losing comment history/ account age when hopping instances.
The way BeeHaw is run makes me wonder why they even bother with federation. They want a safe space.
Beehaw is an old instance (two years, so “old” is relative). They have their own thing going on, and didn’t want to change their groove for the influx of redditors.
I get that, but their mission seems to be against the concept of federation. They want a safe space.
So I’m totally new to federated apps and just joined the biggest one figuring it’d be the most reliable.
I understand the downside of all/local filtering being less useful on smaller instances, but I don’t use those anyway, so would be curious about a couple of things if anyone has advice:
- How would you go about choosing an instance assuming reliability/speed was all you cared about?
- Is there somehow a way to transfer the topics I subscribe to/content I’ve submitted to a new instance, or would I basically just be starting over if I switched?
Choose a server that is oriented to your geographical location.
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Of course location is not a guarantee of fast speeds, but you can at least check servers nearby with https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map. I guess you can check for uptime to have an idea about reliability, but I never really relied on that. Shit happens (vlemmy comes to mind) so it’s hard to gauge an instance’s future reliability/stability. You have the option to start your own instance as well.
This is great, thank you!
Hope you find the right instance for you. Welcome to lemmy!
other useful links:
- an account sync script in python: https://github.com/Ac5000/lemmy_account_sync
- uptime of most lemmy instances: https://lestat.org/
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For what I understood isn’t really the load caused by the users but the load caused by targeted DDOS attacks. Why would anyone attack a Lemmy instance? Humanity…
Apparently it’s a wannabe powermod who got banned after squatting a ton of community names. There was a post from the admins saying that he’s creating garbage communities, with a quarter of all communities being those at one point.
Who you are talking about is indeed an option because he was genuinely pissed off… He created scripts to create thousands of communities so we set up rate limits 😁 But there are plenty more who don’t want LW to succeed. Be it banned users, defederated instances or just someone with too much time looking to take down the biggest instance.
There was also a (now banned) reddit mod who used to moderate gamingcirclejerk there and she demanded me to hand over the gamingcirclejerk community on LW to her. To just take it from the current team. I said no but I can be a middleman but she wanted none of that. She wanted the red carpet laid out ‘because reddit mod’ so she had the right to it 🙄 She was also a very known user on an instance we recently defederated with.
So just wanted to clear that up here. We have suspicions but no proof. Thanks for your support 🫶
Maybe it was spez 🤔 /s
wouldn’t be surprised
Duck Spez
Quack
You’re joking but i quite believe Reddit would do it.
Spending 100 bucks on your nephews to run some code on their home connections - Priceless.
Its the internet. What can be attacked will be attacked. Unrelated to opinions or hatred or anything.
site of only cute puppies pictures? if it can be attacked it will be.
I just jumped to another instance. Feels good now that stuff loads again. This sucks right now, but it’s probably good for Lemmy in the long run. Load should be spread across instances, and this forces people to move. I’ve also noticed that I now see some stuff that I couldn’t anymore on Lemmy.world, so it’s better overall.
Due to me only really using my phone for 3rd party youtube and lemmy, I decided, after thinking the other day “if .world goes down again, I’m gonna create an alt just as a backup.”
And then it happened last kigjt, so I’ve made 3 new ones, just as a safety backup. Now I’ve heard of LASIM. It was super easy.
Another one sees the light. :)
