My understanding is that the problems you are experiencing are limited to Lemmy.world. At least I’m not having those problems, though I have seen some other significant glitches.
I joined lemmy.world when it had 2000 users... It is crazy how quick it grew.
Agreed. OP could maybe try making an account on a different instance and trying that instead? I'm on lemm.ee and haven't had any issues loading or failing to post (yet). Speed has all been fast and normal so far.
It's just .world's insane growth, it might take a bit for the gentleman running it to catch up. 85k users have signed up in the month it has been open, about 25 to 30k of them in the last three days, since Reddit third party apps went down.
I'm going to set up a donation tomorrow. If a bunch of us gave even a dollar a month, it should give him plenty to work with.
Lemmy world seems really bogged at the moment. I’d suggest considering a smaller instance if you want snappy performance. I moved to lemm.ee for now and it’s a lot quicker.
I've been on sh.itjust.works this whole time and everything is pretty quick. It's a big instance but not as big as lemmy.world, and it's either in my time zone or the next one over.
I'm on lemm.ee and everything is running fast and smooth.
Look here: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
Click "All Columns".
lemmy.world has more than 4x active users (last month) compared to the second, distribution can get better.
Look for an instance with high uptime and low latency, and also with good amount of users to have good chance to resist over time. The one I'm using is great in all respects: lemmy.fmhy.ml.
Edit: one more resource showing overloaded instances:
NCL is the instance I host if anyone wants to try it out:
We're still pretty small, and are currently using account applications, but you'll be accepted within a few hours no problem. We're focusing on providing a first-rate experience with federated content, a neutral and apolitical experience regarding local content, and a fully-functional backend with regular maintenance. I'm basically doing this myself in my spare time at the moment, but the long-term goal is to have it pay for itself through donations. We don't really have anything particularly special to offer from any other small-time instance, aside from the promise that we're serious about sticking around and fixing things when they need fixed.
where are you seeing 222k active users, I'm seeing 1/10 that number.
It was 222k when I wrote, in "1m" (last month) column. Current 24k seems more credible. lemm.ee also went down from 8k to 2k. lemmy.fmhy.ml grew a bit to 1.5k.
Wow, that is way more users than I expected
There's a large influx of new users on larger instances that the admins are struggling to deal with at the moment. It will hopefully level out eventually. If it's that big a deal, join a smaller instance, it will have fewer issues. That's the beauty of federation.
ITT:
People explaining how Lemmy.world has experienced growth.
Nobody explaining how the servers are being upgraded to handle the growth.
Tbh, I understand that lemmy.world has "lots" of users (is several 100k even that many?)... But it's nice to understand the work pipeline/plan that aims to make things better
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