I hope the admins upgrade the servers. :/
The admins on many instances already went through an upgrade cycle about two weeks ago to account for the first influx of ex-redditors.
Some of them may already be at their maximum ability/affordability.
I think others in the thread are correct that moving to different instances will probably help reduce some of the overhead that's slowing things down for many.
Lemmy's would benefit from scaling horizontally (more instances) instead of vertically (bigger instances)
Not necessarily. New users gravitate towards established, large instances, such as lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. Expanding horizontally would just create a few laggy and overflowing instances, and a bunch of tiny instances no one uses.
I hope people won't get scared away from Lemmy just because of server issues, all this traffic means there are lots of new users coming in and I wish they all stay.
Lemmy reminds me in a big way of the internet in 2000s, things are still being set up and figured out. It’s going to be a while till there’s a reliable and polished experience and that’s actually a good thing. It takes time to build something great and there’s a lot of a learning curve.
Patience is a good thing to practice now and hopefully the new user base can find the great things we’ve seen with Lemmy and have some patience as things stabilize.
Good analogy. For those that remember the late 90s, early 2000s, the internet was a beautiful place, purely because it was an arena of experimentation. Lemmy does have that feel to it and I, for one, hope that sense of community and discovery never dies.
I remember when I joined Reddit during the great Digg migration. Lemmy is handling this way better than Reddit handled that, so... Score.
The software industry has gotten so much better at designing and operating web apps that can scale quickly.
Well, don't flock to the same servers all the time. Check out join-lemmy.org or one of the other instance lists. My instance (social.fossware.space) still has plenty of space. 😅
Apparantly, I don't exist on some instances. And a comment I submitted earlier didn't federate. Does anyone see this comment?
Every lemmy.world user: "omg me"
No? :)
xD
What was that?! Must have been the wind...
no
I can see your comment (lemmy.world). Might be a bug, or the influx of new users causing lags in some instances.
I see it.
Ive tried and failed to sign up to lemmy.world over the course of a week lmao. At least there's plenty of other places to go out there
That's the beauty of the fediverse. You'll be with us no matter the instance plus, the lack of karma means making a new account on another instance is a tiny inconvenience. :) i likes it here. like we're all in a big pot of stew with no chef to fuck it up. looking at you SPEZ..... dickhead
As long as you have your content backed up that you don't want to lose them yeah, switching accounts really isn't that bad of a deal.
Plus you only need to change if your instance gets defederated or starts sucking for some reason. Otherwise you can post and comment on other instances communities. The only limitation is that you can't create a community anywhere but your own instance, but why wouldn't you do that already?
Shameless plug for the Mass Effect community on lemmy.world, I don't moderate it but there aren't that many people there and the communities on reddit were pretty sizable so hopefully we get some more users.
I can't post or comment anything on lemmy.world this morning.
Yeppers. Double post!
One of the many third party apps I can use just keeps infinitely loading, almost like reddit but for a different reason ;p
test since apparently my instance can only receive?>>
coming through fine on world
Oooh really interesting. I checked [email protected] and it didn't show but https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] does show!
Anchovies...
Arby's
I can't post or comment anything on lemmy.world this morning.
*Failure to post. May be risking double-post. I guess lemmy.ml is struggling too. Lol
Yep. Double post.
Watching the exodus from Reddit and Twitter is top tier entertainment for me right now.
This is where the Fediverse gets tested. Without a big corporate budget to bring extra servers online on a whim, balancing load during rushes is going to be difficult.
Then again, Reddit servers went down a lot and they’re big and corporate.
Well that's the reason I didn't create a lemmy account on popular instances 😆
More people need to learn what federation means instead of just saying “oh resdit2.0” and signing up for the flagship server.
This is my fetish 😅
I also love it when my servers are overloaded with new content and users looking just to have fun and relax for a change. Or choke my girl whatever.
no choking here
Beat The Wenus
Beat The Wenus
I can feel the choking🥴
It's from all the floodgates opening
How will those running instances be able to afford upgrading servers to handle hundreds of thousands of new users? Hopefully enough people donate.
More people will throw up servers
How will those running instances be able to afford upgrading servers to handle hundreds of thousands of new users? Hopefully enough people donate.
I hope the admins upgrade the servers. :/
