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Best instance to create your user on? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by LemmyLeaveReddit@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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There's been some downtime on Lemmy.World. I think this wont be the last time, as the amount of users coming in during the next month will be ginormous. That's completely fine with me.

However, during that time, I couldn't use the Fediverse because my access to the Fediverse comtes through logging in through my Lemmy.World user. (please correct me if I'm mistaken...)

So I get that Fediverse is decentralized. Anyone can create their own instances.

Which is the most reliable? Only time will tell? Or will this be made differently in the future?

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[–] InisSieferI@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'd make accounts in a couple. I made one in a big instance, one in a smaller one (so I can still federate with places like beehaw and I don't feel like I'm contributing to the stress on lemmy.world), one in NSFW lemmy instance (since other instances tend to defederate from those), and one in kbin.social. I think I'll make a mastadon account, too, but I haven't yet.

The small Lemmy instance I joined is on links.dartboard.social if you want to join that one, too. The admin said he was planning on keeping it open for a long time, for the foreseeable future. The mobile apps like Connect, Jerboa, and Liftoff make it easy to switch accounts, too.

[–] mizu6079@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Click here for a list of instances and their differences. Just pick whichever one you want. You might not wanna pick one that's dedicated to one particular topic.

[–] OtakuAltair@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

People need to stop recommending the massive servers when everything's connected anyway.

Join/recommend some smaller ones at random instead, like lemmy.one, lemm.ee, vlemmy.net, and reddthat.com

[–] butter@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

I've been liking midwest.social. It's nice because I live in the Midwest. But also I'm being social.

[–] RomanRoy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe people are concerned that smaller instances may shutdown more easily?

Therefore, people would lose their account and be required to create another in another instance.

lemmy.world still has open registration, but it might not last forever. I recall the admins saying that doesn't escalate horizontally yet, so they can run it only in one machine and keep bumping its hardware, but it has hard limit on cloud platforms (if that's the case). Besides, even if they have a home server, completely self hosted, things get more and more expensive as they improve the server.

So, it MIGHT be a reality that at some point the bigger instances will close registration at some point, and people are running to create their accounts on these, as it will probably be "safer".

At some point, it might me easier/possible to make lemmy escalate horizontally, and then it becomes a non issue, but I figure larger instances would still be preferred.

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

These instances already have thousands of users and have been functioning just fine for years. Their admins have even been upgrading the servers specifically to accommodate for the surge of users.

This fear, if it exists (alot of people are probably just recommending bigger ones because they're bigger), is completely unfounded imo

The point of decentralization, as I understand it, is to spread out and still be connected; would be a shame if we didn't take advantage of that.

[–] ass-destroyer@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bruh I've got accounts on like 8 different instances. You don't have to pick only one

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the tip ass destroyer

[–] A_Toasty_Strudel@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It seems to me that lemmy.world is shaping up to the big one. Given how quickly Lemmy is updating (it being in it's infancy and all) means that until the sharp curve of QOL improvements tapers off, we're going to see more downtime on servers pretty much everywhere. This is exacerbated by lemmy.world being "the big one" because the massive influx of new users from reddit is slowing things down for us a bit. I'd say if you want to be a part of what feels like the "main" instance, lemmy.world is the way to go. However, untill we see the traffic and updates slow down a bit and normalize, there going to be some unreliability. Lemmy.ml is probably the next best bet for a large and reliable instance.

[–] Notmythrowaway6991@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I joined a lemmy.world a few weeks ago when lemmy.ml was the top instance and wanted to pick one a bit smaller to avoid issues. Now here we are. Excited for the ride

[–] LemmyLeaveReddit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

But you could join whatever server you want, and you'd have access and be able to communicate with any instance?

So what has to remain is certainty that your user credentials won't be stolen and that the uptime is good.

As I wrote in another post, maybe the better alternative is to encapsulate your own instance and sync across your devices. Encapsulate it in a device agnostic container.

Your user would be your own. It would always be up?

Maybe this would also help alleviate the traffic, since these servers (for now without commercialization) are running off of people's good will.