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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 shafyy »

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?

I'm not sure that this is the reason, could be totally unrelated. Just a theory. Also, check the web socket traffic to see more info.

Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by 8organicbits »

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…

> having to create legends of features they support

If you search for a new email provider, you'll see the same legends. Email adoption is not doomed.

Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by FlyingSnake »

irdc wrote: post #7
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…

> What instances are people here using? I’m one of many to run my own instance, letting me be in control of who I federate with (though there’s of course the risk of being defederated myself). It’s not for the faint-hearted, but doable, and doesn’t require much in the way of hardware (for me, a Raspberry Pi CM4 with 8GB of memory). I’d be willing to answer any questions people here might have.

I am also interested in self hosting my own lemmy instance just for myself and my close friends. Can you share the details of your setup? Do you host your RasPi at home?

> risk of being defederated

I was not aware of this risk. How does this defederation work?

Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by misnome »

rcarmo wrote: post #10
mikae1 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They say the instance you choose doesn't matter that much I would way that's not true. Mostly speaking from a Mastodon perspective, but should be true for Lemmy/Kbin too. Healthy small ones with active moderation should be a good choice as they have a lesser chance of being defederated. Many smaller instances recently defederated mastodon.social because of spam. You should also choose one that doesn't defederate ot…

Spam is one factor, but biases is another that I don't see mentioned often enough. I'm on mastodon.social, see zero spam, and reading through discussions of past bans it looks as if smaller admins banned it because of tiny vocal minorities that might as well be individually dealt with. I also signed up to another instance (which I am not going to mention) and to hachyderm.io (which nominally caters more to techies, a…

> reading through discussions of past bans it looks as if smaller admins banned it because of tiny vocal minorities that might as well be individually dealt with.

I’ve ceased looking at the local feed (instead of people I follow), because it always seemed to be defederation drama.

This mostly seemed to be “This other large instance has one person we don’t like and won’t impose _our_ moderation standards, so we are defederating”. Or, poor you if you wanted to follow Doctors Without Borders because a news organisation your instance doesn’t like joined it.

Running your own instance seems to be the only way to avoid this, but Mastodon doesn’t seem to be lightweight and I don’t know how sustainable it is for e.g. _everyone_ to do that.

Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by tgv »

rglullis wrote: post #16
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.

One could, but the author clearly didn't check that. The number of users seems pretty much related to the amount of activity. Not very surprising.

To verify, I've taken the top entry, lemmy.world, and looked at the 10 most recent posts, and they're within the last 10 minutes. One post per minute isn't awesome, but well. Then I took 10 of the 0 user instances, and lo and behold, one instance had one post, the rest zero. So the number of users does seem to predict activity (atm).

Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by d0100 »

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?

This is happening to me whenever I post or comment: spinning wheel but the comment gets sent, I have to refresh the page

Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by nologic01 »

Would be quite useful to add the focus of each instance (e.g. tecnhology, music, art, etc). Reddit migrants to lemmy would probably want to join specialized instances that resemble the subs they frequented.

p.s. checking out beehaw I realise that lemmy can be run either as a reddit alternative (with lots of subreddits communities on different topics) or as a discourse type forum (with categories). thats good flexibility to have, but for easy discovery it needs to be managed somehow

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