I got a few new people on my instance that specifically said they wanted a smaller instance while Lemmy.world had issues.
I think there are like 1100+ instances now. No reason to hang out on the largest one unless you absolutely have to.
Comment on has lemmy.world been going down these past few days or is it the app I use?
Asafum@feddit.nl 1 year ago
I bailed on them for now and made an account on a much smaller instance so everything loads again. Thankfully with federation you can still see all the same content, you just need to set up subscriptions again on the new account if you choose to go that route.
mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 year ago
ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
My list of blocked porn communities is more than double my list of subscribed communities; reblocking would be the biggest pill.
xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 1 year ago
There are scripts to migrate that for you.
xfc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can you point me in the direction of these scripts?
rustyriffs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s been one of the biggest drawbacks for me personally. Who wants to go through collecting all of these communities, just to have the server crash and be forced to re-collect on a different instance? It’s very cumbersome, right now, and I hope that eventually it can be a bit more seamless somehow.
antik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There are tools available to migrate accounts, like this one for example: github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate
But it has some limitations like your private messages will not be transferred.
Metal_Zealot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I suggested joining a new instance in another support thread.
For some reason, even though it’s the whole philosophy behind federated networking, people didn’t like the idea.
Is the mentality here degrading to levels of Reddit fanboy-ism? If so, I’m DEFINITELY gonna migrate
mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 year ago
I was really surprised by this too but yeah, people want to be on the same largest instance. I guess it’s a community feeling bundling that.
OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 1 year ago
In addition to a large instance being less likely to shut down and (presumably) having more resources, there’s an additional advantage to being on a larger instance: you have a more comprehensive “All” feed. Since federation with a remote feed isn’t established until (IIRC) someone subscribes to it, an instance with a larger user base should contain more subscriptions to a wider variety of content. Of course, not everyone will like that and you lose out on Beehaw content if you’re on the two largest Lemmy instances, but I think it applies in general.
Metal_Zealot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
At this point, I don’t believe lemmy.world will shut down. But the constant outages are going to push people away regardless. Luckily people have nearly limitless options of instances to join.
Though, the average schmo just recently coming from Reddit won’t understand “Instances” or “federation”, and just give up on Lemmy as a platform overall once they see how unstable it is. lemmy.world is currently the front-door to the fediverse for a lot of people here.