Usually when I post a comment the spinny wheel takes 1-3 seconds. Today it’s taking 45-90 seconds. So I reset my phone, thinking it’s just me, but no.
Anyone else having this issue, or is Verizon throttling Lemmy for me?
Submitted 2 days ago by Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
Usually when I post a comment the spinny wheel takes 1-3 seconds. Today it’s taking 45-90 seconds. So I reset my phone, thinking it’s just me, but no.
Anyone else having this issue, or is Verizon throttling Lemmy for me?
Wow, you weren’t lying about them “a very old Lemmy version.” For anyone else curious, from github, the newest version is 0.19.8, released 2024-12-13. lemmy.world is on 0.19.3 released 2024-01-22.
They tend to lag behind on purpose for stability reasons, but a year out of date is pushing it.
Part of the issue they have is that one of the most popular apps for lemmy, Sync, has been abandoned by its dev. They said they have roughly 5k/month sync users, and if they update, their experience will break further. The egregious part is that app has subscription options, and it’s still been 6+ months since the last update.
You are on the biggest instance using software that passes your comment to every other instance that is federated with yours. I’m surprised it doesn’t take longer than that most of the time.
To be fair, the federation happens in the background after the posting is done. So just posting alone only depends on the capabilities of the instance you’re on.
Lemmy is decentralized, there is no singular Lemmy as a whole unless you’re talking specifically about the server software. As a user you interact with your home instance, in your case lemmy.world.
Most connectivity problems and slowdowns are instance-specific unless you’re talking about a federation problem specifically, for example you posted but it doesn’t show up on other instances, that’s a problem between your instance and the community’s instance.
In your case you most likely just hit something on lemmy.world’s side. Lemmy as a whole is way too small for them to even care about it.
I just experienced issues with Lemmy being slow, then I restarted my phone and it seems to be working as expected now.
Addendum post:
I’m still experiencing occasional sporadic lag from lemmy.world, even after restarting my phone.
🤷♂️
I rarely see any performance issues. Maybe once a month or so the main page won’t load for a couple hours.
I comment and browse a lot, but not obsessively so. I can’t say I’ve ever had an issue with performance with .world
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 2 days ago
No. It has nothing to do with the software. Your instance is the problem. I guess this is your chance to switch to another instance.
nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
or pay your admins bills
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 2 days ago
or both.
Mubelotix@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Lemmy is cheap compared to Mastodon though. You can probably fit a multi-user instance on the free tier of any hosting provider, provided you sweep media