Whether you are a Reddit refugee (I am one) or just randomly stumbled upon Lemmy and decided to join lemmy.world, welcome to the Fediverse.
If you have been here for long enough and settled in and now finally feel comfortable with Lemmy, I highly advice you to move to smaller instances. I just newly left Lemmy.world to join Lemm.ee.
We need to capitalize on the decentralized nature of the Fediverse and Lemmy instead of having everyone joining one instance. This will benefit the admins of Lemmy.world a lot as they would not have to deal with such a high amount of users. It also leaves room for new users to join and have a good experience rather than an experience filled with server outages where they will give up on Lemmy.
I’m not sure I understand. If I joined lemmy.world and subbed to stuff I like that has enough users to be interesting you’re saying, unsubscribe from those and join a different one with less users? I don’t know how that’s supposed to work?
Or are you saying join a different sever, log in there, and then pull the content from lemmy.world? That somehow helps with the load?
Lemmy is decentralized but completely connected together. I am on lemm.ee but I can still subscribe and comment to Lemmy.world or any number of other communities. The website you type in to visit Lemmy doesn’t matter. All Lemmy instances go to the same place. OP is arguing that a large centralized instance is bad which I don’t think anybody can disagree with. Lemmy.world has been down like every day. Tons of stability/DDOS issues but that only affects communities/users localized on that instance. Problem is that’s like half of the active Lemmy users right now.
Right but that doesn’t answer my question, is he literally just suggesting people go somewhere else?
To move somewhere else doesn’t mean to lose your subscriptions in the context of lemmy. What he means is if your main account on lemmy.world and it’s down, you won’t be able to (temporarily) access both your account(=your subs) and lemmy.world’s communities, while if your account on smaller (more stable) instance, it would only affect you by losing access to lemmy.world’s communities, but other subbed communities would still work/appear in your feed.
Hope that explains it.
Ahhh gotchya thanks!
He’s saying the later, that you should make an account on a smaller server and pull content from lemmy.world (and other servers; lemmy.world isn’t the only instance with content).
Due to the nature of federation, every action has to get pushed to every other server, so it doesn’t help much if the communities are all on one instance, but it helps a little. For example:
If 100 people use lemmy.world, their server has to load all pages for them and push their actions to all other servers.
If 70 people use lemmy.world and 30 people use civilloquy.com but exclusively post to lemmy.world communities, lemmy.world has to load the pages for only 70% of people, but it still has to push all their actions to every other server.
The larger load benefits is breaking communities up among different instances instead of centralizing everything.