Lemmy.world grew from about 51k users when third-party reddit apps started to shut down to about 84.8k users at the time of this post.
Definitely felt some growing pains in the past few days, but it's great to see the platform more active now that things have become more stable.
So, welcome reddit expats!
A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!
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Try another instance, as close to your home as possible.
You can browse the map here https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map
Good idea, opened up another account with our northern Canadian brother sh.itjust.works/ for backup
Yeah, I also have one on lemmy.ca, the ping is more consistent (both are 2-3ms).
That’s really neat but the closest servers are private, lol.
I wouldn't sweat so much picking a close server as long as it has enough users to be around for a while, reasonable rules, and isn't under too much strain. Just by getting off the big servers, you'll have a much faster experience and access to the same content.
I moved from lemmy.world to this one that specializes in my interests, and it's running great.
Those are good tips, thanks, I found a smaller one recently and it’s MUCH better, things are actually loading now, lol.
It's comfy; my setup almost never fails to load or post anything after load-balancing myself elsewhere.
Good tips! I should have explained a bit more, but by getting a server as close as possible, your ping should theoretically be lower than an instance that's far from you (I know, the internet is not a straight line to the server).
The best way to test this is by pinging the server in a CMD prompt/terminal.
Indeed. If I remember correctly VLemmy is in Ireland, and yet I've gotten consistently fast responses from it except during server upgrades. I think the size of the instance really does matter here.