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Yes, I just made the switch to a closer instance yesterday. So much faster. I was on lemmy.world for the past few weeks but then I realized the server is hosted in Europe and I was getting 144ms ping from US east coast. This new instance I'm on, I'm getting 22ms ping.
You can test latency yourself from cmd by typing "ping lemmy.world" for example
Do you mind sharing your new instance? I am also on the US east coast
move to a smaller instance that is hosted close to you.
How do I know the distance from an instance to me?
Can resolve the ip of the instance, then use an ip locator to get a rough distance
this post made me move instances and i am glad that i did, thanks!
Definetly good advice! :) Thanks you for recommending discuss.tchncs.de
I'm having trouble understanding how this works. If i create a community on a different instance, why can't i find it here, even when i have the switch set to all? Do they only sync on certain times of the day? Also when i delete a community (that i created by accident) why does it not disappear?
Federation happens gradually and changes are usually not visible everywhere at the same time.
Using a fully qualified name (or an URL like https://lemmy.world/c/community@instance) you should be able to access your new community though.
Could an instance be hosted inside an app? In a container locally on your own machine? Maybe the two could be synced? One instance across all your devices synced?
That would be the safest?
As I understand it, you can host your own instance off a personal server, and use that as your "home" instance.
I signed on to lemmy.world in June as that seemed like The Place, but now I'm thinking of switching to a lesser populated instance. I still haven't found an instance that I like enough to switch to though. Right now, even with the performance issues, lemmy.world still feels like the most suitable instance for me.
You still need an extra acc onthebig ones if you want to usethe apps though. Not all instances are supported.