Why do the instances keep going down? It makes me think that this is not a reliable social network, but the alternatives are not as good.

  • @1984@lemmy.today
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    Lemmy.world is super big AND being attacked constantly. Smaller instances don’t have these issues and they are stable and fast. You can still subscribe to everything from Lemmy.world and your instance will remain up even when Lemmy.world is down.

    I’m on lemmy.today and it’s fast and stable. Come join us and you will see.

    Basically use the fediverse the way it was meant to be used.

    • You can still subscribe to everything from Lemmy.world and your instance will remain up even when Lemmy.world is down.

      I had no idea, just tried and you are right. Do you know if everything works the same, like moderation?

      • @1984@lemmy.today
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        Yeah it’s all federated. If you get banned from a community on Lemmy.world, you will not be able to access it from Lemmy.today for example (with your lemmy.today user account).

        This is the really super cool part about the fediverse. People don’t realize… This is where the magic is.

        If Lemmy.world is down, you still access posts and threads and make posts etc from lemmy.today… And it all syncs when Lemmy.world is up again.

        Another mind blowing moment is when you realize you can read and post on Lemmy from Mastadon… So you can combine interacting with Mastadon and Lemmy in the same conversion.

    • @favrion@lemmy.mlOP
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      Your instance only has two communities and they’re both about Lemmy. Seems a bit boring to me. Sorry.

        • @1984@lemmy.today
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          221 year ago

          This should be put in large letters on the join lemmy site so people can understand the point of the fediverse…

          • @Mereo@lemmy.ca
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            41 year ago

            Yup. A month ago, I was consumed as hell about Lemmy. I thought I needed to create on account on each instance.

      • @eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site
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        You think theyre all siloed off from each other or something? I’m literally the only user on my instance and there is 1 community with 0 posts yet here I am, on another instance.

      • Excel
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        221 year ago

        Local communities are totally irrelevant when deciding which instance should host your account.

          • Excel
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            61 year ago

            You can join any community on any instance from any other instance, as long as the admin hasn’t blocked it.

              • Excel
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                41 year ago

                … exactly?

                Someone pointed out an advantage of smaller instances and you were the one that said small instances have a problem (lack of communities), and I’m the one pointing out that your supposed problem does not, in fact, exist.

                TL;DR small instance good

      • southsamurai
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        Reread their last sentence.

        What instance you use as your home instance is irrelevant unless it has been defederated from an unusual amount of instances. You likely don’t want to try and use lemmygrad as your home lol.

        Otherwise, home instance is only going to determine your local feed. Which is pretty much the least used feed anywhere other than maybe beehaw. Discovery via all combined with searches lets you populate your subscribed feed, so those are the ones that you’ll use most.

        Lemmy is federated by design. If you try and treat instances like some kind of dedicated site the way reddit was, you might as well not use it at all because you’ll be missing out on the benefits federation brings to the format.

        Are you old enough to remember geocities? It had these circles where individual sites within geocities would link to each other. You would have your own site, but be linked to maybe hundreds of others. That’s closer to what lemmy is than the kind of reddit experience you’re probably used to.

      • @1984@lemmy.today
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        Yeah it’s just getting started, and you can start new communities if you like. But no point starting ones that already exists on other instances.

        The amount of local communities doesn’t matter much, Im subscribed to like 100 remote communities anyway. :)

      • @portside@monyet.cc
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        I guess you need to do some more research on how Lemmy works.

        You can follow any community from any instance. For now you could create an account at some lesser populated instances, I had one on lemmy.ml, made another account on monyet.cc. It’s a minor inconvenience that you have to subscribe to communities but other than that my experience with lemmy has been very good.