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On the future of Lemmy vs reddit
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this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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That's an issue of your instance, not of Lemmy. Smaller, less populated instances tend to be more stable.
Correct, I have an alt account on a different instance because .world is down so much.
Yes, the network load should be distributed among many small servers. That's why my main acc is on monero.town
I see no point personally in actively using more than one account.
If you want many users registered on your instance, I suggest you make the server about a general topic people can identify with. E.g. programming.dev is generally about programming, so it hosts communities for all sorts of programming languages. It seems like you like art, maybe make the server about art generally or a (popular) direction of art and advertise your instance with that. I don't think we have an instance about art yet
hobbit.world has some great LotR related art btw.
Good tip
The more people build instances and the more people create communities outside of lemmy.world, the more resilient all this will be. Lemmy is the kind of place where you can fix your issues by building alternatives.
Hosting an instance has some cost and technical difficulties, so I don't go around recommending that, but creating an account on a mid-sized instance and creating communities there for what you like to talk about is in everyone's power.
One issue I see is reports as recent as a month ago of people bringing an instance to it's knees with a python script on 1 desktop computer. It's one thing to ask for more instances and investment into the hardware to run them from more people, but it's another thing not realizing that the code itself is heavily under optimized. For now, and you can see this everytime there's an outage via the atlassian uptime tracker notes, server owners are throwing more resources to bandaid issues.
I myself am currently running an under optimized application for my company, we are using 4x the amount of money to run it as what it's meant to replace currently. At a certain point even throwing the kitchen sink at problems stops working.
Lemmy's code needs to mature more, but im excited about the future for sure.
But even if I'm on my instance, lemme.ee, and LW is down, I'm not going to see anything from that instance. Which is where the most activity is. So I might see the same link for an article locally, with two comments, and no interaction from the instance with 300 comments.
I mean, eventually other instances will grow, but then they will face the same problems as Lemmy.world.
It's not really just about reading, it's the engagement. I can read something from a couple of hours ago, comment now, and then somebody might read it in a couple of hours. And then comment back. But then I'm barely interested in the conversation because I've moved on.
But I'm just nitpicking. I know it's going to balance out. Or it won't and we'll move on to something else that does LOL. Or I can always spend more time outside. Gasp.