I’m gonna guess that just being on a less busy server will make the biggest difference. I moved from lemmy world and lemm.ee is super fast even though I’m pretty sure both are across the ocean from me.
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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In FL, the only one here with signups open is not responding and has 56k members. The next closest one is the only one open in Atlanta and it's exploding heads. No thanks. Wish I had more options.
Yeah we need a FloridaMan instance! I'll help set it up if someone else pays for it. I'm a card-carrying bearded Unix/Linux admin who knows how to exit vim 👍
What would something like that cost?
Exploding heads? I'm in GA, but also don't care about local stuff because I live in south. I just go for stuff outside that scope for a broader sense of what's going on.
The next closest one is the only one open in Atlanta and it's exploding heads.
yeah pass 💀💀💀
If you're in central Europe, feel free to join mine!
Wow, I did not expect there to be servers so close to me! Thanks for sharing this
There are two things being discussed here. The first is the original suggestion of the account you'd log into and use as a server for pulling information. The other some have mentioned is the location of communities. They both share similar problems in an overloaded or defunct instance situation, but need different solutions.
For the account I think just one main thing needs developing, and that's the ability to share a profile across different logins. So you can have two or three different logins, but you have the same settings and when people interact with you they see you as the same umbrella/main account. I'm not sure how this could work outside Lemmy, like kbin or even Mastodon without being part of the protocol itself, but maybe that's a long range idea. There's also the problem of name collision since there's enough accounts now that duplication is probably a thing. The choice right now is limited to just making accounts in a few places and see if things are better/same/worse there before you get too invested with customizing your stuff.
For instances - I had seen a suggestion of having a grouping ability between different instances that wanted to share or mirror each others content, basically an automated cross-posting. This would allow multiple instances so if one has some problem, the content still exists. There's lots of caveats with that I'm sure, but one of the laments from many Redditors is the loss of resources, and that really should be a high priority to make sure that content is both preserved and available. For now the best we can do is make communities in a few places and cross-post the more important things so more people read and respond to it.
My local instance hasn't upgraded to 1.18, and it's 404-ing me when I tried to load this community in that instance. Another friction surface absent with this lemmy.world account of mine.
You could reach out to your instance's admin, asking them where they are at with the update?
I joined https://lemmy.myserv.one but I have to resubscribe to all my communities? How can you avoid this and have it automatic?
That's exactly what preventing me from switching to a more obscure instance. I don't want to redo my subs all over again
Kind of a big drawback and not the original impression I got when told all instances are federated so its the same everywhere and doesnt matter….
Switching might benefit lemmy.world but it was inconvenient and didnt benefit me much. The content is the same after resubbing but was a hassle. Unclear if I gained much personally doing it.
The benefit for you is that you will be in a low traffic instance. All the content you load will be loaded from that instance, not lemmy.world. So for you the content loads faster.
Like, I'm replying to you from lemmygrad.ml, and I'm never actually connecting to lemmy.world, and no content is loaded in real time from Lemmy.world. this comment will be synced back to lemmy.world and then synced out to everyone else that's subscribed.
But if 90% of people are on Lemmy.world then naturally it's going to run like ass.
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This is kinda neat. It would be awesome to be able to filter based on the attributes listed.
I don't understand personally why Lemmy.world isn't utilizing load balancing (specifically, horizontal load balancing). Is it due to budget concerns?
For all we know it's hosted in an old laptop in someone's basement right?
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