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lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by nutomic@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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This site is currently struggling to handle the amount of new users. I have already upgraded the server, but it will go down regardless if half of Reddit tries to join.

However Lemmy is federated software, meaning you can interact seamlessly with communities on other instances like beehaw.org or lemmy.one. The documentation explains in more detail how this works. Use the instance list to find one where you can register. Then use the Community Browser to find interesting communities. Paste the community url into the search field to follow it.

You can help other Reddit refugees by inviting them to the same Lemmy instance where you joined. This way we can spread the load across many different servers. And users with similar interests will end up together on the same instances. Others on the same instance can also automatically see posts from all the communities that you follow.

Edit: If you moderate a large subreddit, do not link your users directly to lemmy.ml in your announcements. That way the server will only go down sooner.

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[–] super_user_do@feddit.it 1 points 2 years ago

I'm happy with Feddit ^_^

[–] zljk@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

https://lemmy.ml/c/piracy

[–] UnpopularBrainRot@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I sent my registration yesterday, because I signed in another instance, one from my country, but I couldn't see all the post and no comments from lemmy.ml even thought is supposedly linked, so thank you for approving my account.

Even if I'm a tech savvy person I found the whole experience of joining lemmy pretty bad, I like the concept of federation, but I think it's too confusing to normal people, it really needs to be more seamless if you want to grow, how? idk, I was thinking some sort of replication, when you sign up, you are registered to the main instance (this) and given the choice to select other instances, automatically selecting let's say another 3 based on your location, then your account is synced in all the registered and linked instances, when you login if an instance is experiencing overload then it switches to another one. I don't know if this is realistic or out of the scope of Lemmy, or maybe against the philosophy of it. I'm just rambling.

I'm just glad that there is an open alternative for anonymous social interaction in this day of walled internet services such as discord, twitter, facebook etc. and I wish you all the success.

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[–] brb@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Sorry for contributing towards this by registering but I'm very appreciative of the work being done to facilitate this community. I hope to see Lemmy grow with the negative direction other platforms are taking.

[–] beto@lemmy.studio 1 points 2 years ago

I just created https://lemmy.studio/ for music-related discussions.

[–] MonkeyLord@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there any way to transfer an account to a different instance?

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[–] SpacePirate@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there a feature to send a read-only/static link to Lemmy pages?

I’m envisioning a pre-cached version of the page that is updated hourly or so, rather than querying the database live for every comment on the thread. In a perfect world, these could also be offloaded to a CDN as static pages…

[–] KelsonV@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Even just caching the not-logged-in views can be a big help, as I've found with self-hosted WordPress.

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[–] vmaziman@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

If server crashes again the devs should just stop all registrations to this instance, people always follow path of least resistance and the first dev instance is just too easy to be stuck onto

[–] highduc@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It seems the lemmy.ml instance is really slow, times out, etc. I fear this will be a bad experience for new users migrating from reddit. Anything we can do? Any place to donate to scale it up, or would it be a good idea for existing users to migrate ourselves to different instances?

edit: I did find the donate heart at the top. Not sure how fast that'll improve things but I did make a small donation.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

the more immediate solution is that they removed lemmy.ml from the recommended instances page https://join-lemmy.org/instances

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