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lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by nutomic@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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This site is currently struggling to handle the amount of new users. I have already upgraded the server, but it will go down regardless if half of Reddit tries to join.

However Lemmy is federated software, meaning you can interact seamlessly with communities on other instances like beehaw.org or lemmy.one. The documentation explains in more detail how this works. Use the instance list to find one where you can register. Then use the Community Browser to find interesting communities. Paste the community url into the search field to follow it.

You can help other Reddit refugees by inviting them to the same Lemmy instance where you joined. This way we can spread the load across many different servers. And users with similar interests will end up together on the same instances. Others on the same instance can also automatically see posts from all the communities that you follow.

Edit: If you moderate a large subreddit, do not link your users directly to lemmy.ml in your announcements. That way the server will only go down sooner.

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[–] darkknight@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does anyone know if social media is against Oracle cloud free tier ToS? I didn't see anything specific when I googled it, but ToS aren't always in that. Was trying to setup an instance on a smaller vps I have that's idle but 512MB won't cut it.

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[–] jeff@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Have already moved - will keep hunting for the best instance for me but appreciate this Digg jr aka reddit killer.

[–] Two9A@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Might be a silly question, but: does ActivityPub support setting up a subinstance that gets its data from somewhere else? Traditionally you'd probably do that with a pgsql machine and multiple frontends, but having thought about it while typing this out, putting that load on the ActivityPub protocol would mean loading up the master to much the same extent as just having the traffic hit the master directly...

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 2 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure how such arrangement would work, but if postgres really becomes a bottleneck, hosters could consider some sort of managed postgres cluster.

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[–] t_var_s@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

something like lemmy-in.[tld] ?

[–] highduc@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It seems the lemmy.ml instance is really slow, times out, etc. I fear this will be a bad experience for new users migrating from reddit. Anything we can do? Any place to donate to scale it up, or would it be a good idea for existing users to migrate ourselves to different instances?

edit: I did find the donate heart at the top. Not sure how fast that'll improve things but I did make a small donation.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

the more immediate solution is that they removed lemmy.ml from the recommended instances page https://join-lemmy.org/instances

[–] anders@rytter.me 2 points 2 years ago

@nutomic lemmy.world is a new instance which can also be used.

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