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Spread Out: How To Speed Up Lemmy (lemmy.fediverse.observer)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by miles@discuss.online to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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There are many lemmy instances in the world, but currently most people are using lemmy.world. This is why everything has gotten so slow.

You don't have to delete your lemmy.world account, but check out https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map it's a geo-based map of lemmy instances -- explore stuff nearest you, pick one, sign up, search , subscribe and begin interacting with your favorite communities. It's easy, free and it will be faster. Try it!

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[-] Pleonasm@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] PabloPcakes@vlemmy.net 5 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] Pleonasm@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

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