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[-] kobra@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago

Ha, I applied to two smaller instances and have heard nothing but radio silence. The smaller instances are of no help if they donโ€™t let anyone in.

[-] OtakuAltair@vlemmy.net 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Use and recommend lemm.ee, lemmy.one, and vlemmy.net to others

Seriously, stop recommending large servers when lemmy hasn't been optimized for that yet. The point of decentralization is spreading out and still being connected; let's not waste that advantage.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I run https://thelemmy.club - people are always welcome here :)

[-] hemmes@vlemmy.net 17 points 1 year ago

Where my VLemmy peeps at?!? ๐Ÿ™Œ

[-] NoRodent@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Ok, but what if the instance I choose just ends suddenly? Do I understand it correctly that on each one I have to create a new account and re-subscribe to all the communities etc,?

[-] Coelacanth@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

That's correct though account migration is planned for some point in the future, or at least noted as a desirable feature by the Devs. Maybe even linking accounts across instances?

Having to resubscribe to all your communities is annoying but I imagine third party apps could streamline that process when they get released/refined.

[-] OtakuAltair@vlemmy.net 7 points 1 year ago

Aside from what Coelacanth said, those instances are no more likely to shut down than lemmy.world (I can't recall a Lemmy instance that's not for personal use ever shutting down); they've functioned just fine for years and have even been upgraded for the surge of users too

[-] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.fmhy.ml shutdown and hasnt come back yet. My understanding is that it won't be back, but that was the instance I signed up for initially to spread the server load

[-] Chickerino@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

well this just happened with vlemmy.net, i was affected by this and had to manually resubscribe to 50 communities and recreate one, because of this someone made a tool to download your data off of lemmy and upload it to another instance https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

[-] favrion@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

But isn't this the main website? Why can't I use it?

[-] OtakuAltair@vlemmy.net 7 points 1 year ago

There is no 'main' website. It's all connected. People just started joining that because it's big and overloaded it, and now it's having federation and stability issues.

[-] favrion@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I am new here so sorry for asking this, but am I expected to join the same communities on 75 different Lemmy clones?

[-] WhiteHotaru@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Federation means you can search for your community on your instance and it will fetch all the information if you want to subscribe. I am writing this comment with my account on feddit.de. I just switched to the โ€žallโ€œ feed, which shows all content from all servers feddit federated with. If I am looking up a new community to join like communityname@servername.tdl feddit will copy the posts for mento be able to interact with them. My reactions will be synched back.

[-] favrion@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I just created two communities: Sudoku, and Nonograms, in Lemmy World. Can you see them?

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Fair point. Tye small oneโ€™s Re being hugged to death and arenโ€™t letting any more people in, so people are gravitating towards the juggernauts, and the juggernauts are collapsing under their weight. ๏ฟผ

Next couple weeks should be interesting

[-] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 7 points 1 year ago

My instance (civilloquy.com) has open sign-ups. ;)

[-] Undearius@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

When I first joined, I never got a confirmation that my account had been accepted. After a few minutes, I just typed the username and password I used during registration and I was able to log in.

[-] myxi@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago
[-] sab@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I don't want to be locked in with a stelletje Nederlanders zoals ik.

[-] myxi@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IDK what you meant by "locked with" but there is feddit.uk too.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Good for you. I'd been trying that for months with no success. Finally .world let me in last week.

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

I started on lemmy.ml but it was unusable for the past few days. Today I managed to get into programming.dev pretty quickly and it has been smooth sailing.

[-] greenteadrinker@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

When I applied, I never got a notification that it got approved, but I could post and comment on that instance. So you might have been in a similar situation as me or the admins are still dealing with a large influx of people

[-] kobra@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Oh wow you're totally right. I was just able to log into one that I had never heard from! Thank you, good call!

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