GingeyBookI had to post from my alt account because lemmy.world servers are down
CookieJarObserverRightfully so.
Lemmy servers are hosted by just some people that often don’t even accept donations, shoulder the entire legal liability and are sys admin all together by themselves.
And then there is the clownshow reddit being a gigantic company and not even able to not be a gigantic shitshow.
Gotta love decentealised shit
I’ve been trying to find a smaller instance and I tried a couple, they see waaaaaay different things. I can’t even see lemmy.world on one of them. I might have to keep all of the instances and just jump around.
frozenJoin mine! I run several tools in order to federate with the most popular content automatically. I’m keeping user count limited, but sign ups are open at the moment.
I seriously like your rules, lol.
I like to keep shit simple. :D
I like your rules too. But I have to admit I didn’t know what “No tankie shit” meant, so I had to look it up. 😀 That was a new term for me.
Sent an application in!
gabe [he/him]Some have community seeding bots that pull top communities and posts periodically from other instances.
That makes sense, thanks for explaining. I couldn’t find a lot of instances in their search though either. Can the instance person make it so they have to approve each instance or something? This is a very simple one and I can’t believe they would be defederated.
My instance has it. It’s local communities are focused on a specific niche (books & writing) so it might not be your cup of tea though. But basically when setting it up you specify which instances it pulls from, how often it pulls and how many communities it can pull at a time. You can filter specific communities and instances, and it’ll automatically ignore instances you’ve already defederated from. By default it pulls the top /all posts from the instances you specify. Mine pulls from a couple big instances and smaller niche instances as well every day around noon to get a solid diverse amount of content. You can also auto disable NSFW communities from populating as well. It’s basically the equivalent of telling the bot to go to the front page of each instance, seeing the top posts of the day and pulling from each community that’s there to check if it’s federated into your instance or not and if it isn’t itll pull it in for you.
With the way lemmy functions if a problematic community starts hitting /all an instance admin can just remove the community and it won’t federate into the instance anymore. Ideally there would be more granular federation options in the future, but with the things that the seeding bot does now it works pretty well.
That is great information, thank you for explaining it to me. That explains why I’ve had issues trying to find my favorite communities on the smaller instances. I think it’s misleading when they say that you can pick any instance then, it really matters for what kind of admin you get and what you can see overall. I can’t see world on this super small instance but I can see beehaw. On world, I can’t see beehaw but I can see everything else the small instance can’t. I’m starting to see why people are confused when they join if they join a small instance.
Some of it is also federating content in, you don’t need an admin to do so for you. If you have a link to a different instances community, just pasting it into the search bar of your local instance will federate the community into your instance for you. Go to lemmyverse.net and find a community and its link then past it into the search of your local lemmy instance
I did that, that’s what I mean where it wouldn’t work. I’ve done it for tons of communities from world where they didn’t have it but it didn’t work on this small instance.
Really? You sometimes have to click the search button a few times.
I tried 3 different ways and three different times for the search way thinking it was me. It has me confused too, my guess is that the admin didn’t want world clogging up their all page so they bounced it or something.
Lemmy sometimes has federation issues sometimes and wont federate communities into the instance if its down.
Holodeck_MoriartyThats what I do. It’s a strength of the fediverse, and most of the apps handle account swapping pretty seamlessly.
TAGWhat apps do you recommend for swapping instances? I have tried Jerboa and Connect. Both allow me to swap accounts from the main menu, but I am brought back to me default start view and not the community/thread I was looking at.
I really like Liftoff for that. You can choose instances on the fly while posting, searching, or reading comments without losing your spot.
It’s really nice.
I love it too. In case you didn’t know, you can just lurk on other instances without having to have an account by adding just the instance.
I noticed that, because I went to add my beehaw account that I had created when I joined Lemmy, but I guess beehaw deleted it for being inactive or something. Beehaw still shows up on my instance list, and I kind of wish I could remove it.
On your instances list long press Beehaw and the option to remove it will show up.
Omg, thank you so much
BappityI tried lem.ee and it’s cool but I see so many hexbear posts on the All tab from like any of their communities spewing hate and it’s frustrating to scroll past
Yeah, that’s a nah from me for that very reason. Those people should be shouting that stuff in their bathroom, not in a place where others have to hear it.
I believe there is a way to block instances, I don’t know if it blocks comments but i believe it would block the posts
AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦The funny this is that Reddit with its big teams and infrastructure was also sluggish and going down a lot this week. No excuses for Reddit.
koyo (they/them)this is the opposite on reddit (obvious reasons). ppl go ham when someone mentions lemmy.world is down lol
samus12345Which is especially funny since you can just log into a different instance and keep browsing, unlike with Reddit.
Kbin.social alt accounts rise up!
kspatlasMy main kbin account is kbin.cafe but im using this one for Artemis until kbin API is properly implemented
Reddit servers down? Didn’t notice
AzuleBladeI switched to lemm.ee, it’s much more stable since it’s not constantly being attacked by script kiddies. I have a theory a user got banned, and is making it their personal mission to ruin .world’s performance. Please donate to your home instance owner(s) if they have that set up. Even if it’s just a little, it can make everyone’s experience better.
That wouldn’t surprise me, I’ve seen ddos’s against smaller servers over dumber things.
But given that they preemptively ban instances for not supporting NATO and the IMF and don’t preemptively ban nazi, transphobe, and pedophile instances, fuck em.
The fediverse is weaker if .world is allowed to color people’s perception of Lemmy.
jackpotwjats so good about lemmy.world compared to lemmy.ml
KerrigorMore letters
MeldrikLemmy.world is run by the same people as mastodon.world. I guess a lot of users from mastodon.world went to Lemmy.world and the rest was word of mouth.
I think the name does a lot of heavy lifting in regards to pulling in new users. It sounds more official or general because of the world part.
Yeah, people just want a “generic” place because they generally don’t want to be pidgeon holed. I have nice and inoffensive lemmy.world and lemmy.today accounts because of this. I’m basically a vanilla NPC in my life and “sh.itjust.works” is simply too spicy!
I’m on the spicy instance? I couldn’t tell.
Default_DefectThis is more or less what I thought when I first joined.
VCTRNAlso Sync has it as default.
lemmy.world isn’t run by communists
that sounds like a downside, unless you mean the kinda USSR/Chinese “communists” that are just state capitalists/feudalists
Well lemmygrad.ml loves to make memes about how great the Chinese are, and they’re kind of the poster child for lemmy.ml, so…
well those are like pro fascist people, not exactly communists, because current china is very much fascistic in it’s behavior.
LoveSausageNot like the actual fascist cuddling neo-libs that run Lemmy word . Stop using words you don’t understand.
hey man, don’t care about your whataboutism, if you think China is a communist country and you are a big fan of what you are doing, then you like fascism simple as.
Even if I was you would be incorrect.
Go read a book
sure buddy, whatever makes you feel better
That’s exactly the kind of people who run ml sadly.
I heard lemmy.ml is run by genocide denying tankies so that put me off from it a little
EmotionalSupportLancet [undecided]I think the draw is that it’s trying really hard to basically be Reddit on the fediverse. For the people who use the fediverse as a Reddit alternative that is probably seen as good.
For the rest of us: that shit’s lame as hell
To each their own though
I agree, they’re speedrunning every bad decision that allows Reddit to be such a festering reactionary shithole.
The Reddit refugee wave is mad about Apollo not the fact Reddit sucks lol.
wjats so good about lemmy.world compared to lemmy.ml nothing. i figure the devs of the protocol should be able to maintain and update their own server, and so far that has proven to be correct.
Lemmy goes down more than a 2 dollar hooker on a Friday night. But the only reason I care is because I don’t use the other site.
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