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Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by rglullis »

NoboruWataya wrote: post #2

What instances are people here using? I recently decided to give Lemmy a try. From what I had been seeing I was planning to sign up to BeeHaw, only to find that they had defederated two of the largest instances due to their lax sign-up policies. I can understand their reasoning and it looks like it was relatively well handled, but it still makes that instance impractical. I ended up going to VLemmy as it was one of t…

I've created and I'm keeping https://communick.news open for registration for the time being, but the creation of communities will be only for admins.

Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by sixhobbits »

distcs wrote: post #4

Is anyone able to sign up on any Lemmy instance. If I try to sign up, the sign up button just turns into a spinning wheel which keeps spinning for ever. It does not seem to be load issue. When I click sign up, the browser does not seem to send any request to the server either except for a request to "symbols.svg". Is the sign up button even working?

I couldn't sign up or even find the sign up button for any of the recommended instances or through the android app. I eventually found a sign up option by navigating to a post and trying to leave a comment which prompted me to sign up. I filled in the requested info and the sign up button didn't do anything or show an error.

I tried again using view desktop site (on Firefox Android) and then it worked but still anything but a smooth intuitive process for now it seems.

Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by alpaca128 »

distcs wrote: post #4

Is anyone able to sign up on any Lemmy instance. If I try to sign up, the sign up button just turns into a spinning wheel which keeps spinning for ever. It does not seem to be load issue. When I click sign up, the browser does not seem to send any request to the server either except for a request to "symbols.svg". Is the sign up button even working?

There's another spinning wheel issue on the login screen: if you don't validate your email before trying to login it'll never finish.

Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by mosen »

distcs wrote: post #8
shafyy wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as I understand, this is related to a very inefficient implementation with Web Sockets (probably why you don't see an additional request). They're trying to get rid of that as soon as possible is my understanding, so things should get better. What helped in my case: Picking another username. It's possible that somehow it handles existing username errors weirdly which leads to the infinite spinner.

How does it find out if the username is existing when it does not seem to send any request at all to the server?

Check the Websocket traffic, it might be in there.

Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by rglullis »

tgv wrote: post #14

Calling an instance without users "awesome" is stretching it. Unfortunately, less than 10 users makes up a large majority, and those have very, very small communities.

You could have an instance that is not focused on having users, but instead just be the home of many communities of different topics and the have "awesome" moderators.

Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by CptanPanic »

Sol- wrote: post #9

Needing to think about instances and having to create legends of features they support already dooms widespread adoption, but I suppose this can be fine. Small communities and spaces can be a benefit, though they'll be heavily filter-bubbled towards the tech/nerd crowd. Shame we don't live in a world where Reddit somehow turned into non-profit for the common good like Wikipedia before it monopolized forum culture and…

Yes a non-profit reddit would have been great, but not sure it would have made it this far. And probably couldn't have gone that route after it was acquired early on by Conde Nast in 2006.

Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by 8organicbits »

tgv wrote: post #14

Calling an instance without users "awesome" is stretching it. Unfortunately, less than 10 users makes up a large majority, and those have very, very small communities.

Lemmy is federated. You can interact with other instances by design. Being on a small instance may even be better as it's less likely to be overloaded, which is a current issue with the largest instances. Running an instance of your own, for just yourself is a primary way to use federated services.

Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by 8organicbits »

NoboruWataya wrote: post #2

What instances are people here using? I recently decided to give Lemmy a try. From what I had been seeing I was planning to sign up to BeeHaw, only to find that they had defederated two of the largest instances due to their lax sign-up policies. I can understand their reasoning and it looks like it was relatively well handled, but it still makes that instance impractical. I ended up going to VLemmy as it was one of t…

I'm on Beehaw, and I like the way the defederation was handled. Here's the latest from them: https://beehaw.org/post/594843 You can see some positive comments from users about the change and a transparent road map for re-federating.

To put it another way, would you want to join an instance that isn't trying (or is failing to) contain harassment and other forms of bad actors? That's the challenge the de-fed is addressing: https://beehaw.org/post/567170

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