I'm definitely seeing the benefits of belonging to a smaller Lemmy instance today. - eviltoast

I’ve gone and made accounts of a handful of Lemmy instances, all of them larger, more popular ones.

… and I can’t access any of them directly today, likely due to the influx of users from Reddit.

Programming.dev is alive and well though.

  • mintiefresh@lemmy.caEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    I am noticing a lot of comments from lemmy.world communities can’t be seen from my other accounts like lemmy.ca or programming.dev.

    Aside from that, I think it’s nice to be on a smaller instance.

    • JavaCodeWriter@programming.devEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      I can’t even access the lemmy.world instance. It just always errors out for me.

      But I like the idea of smaller servers that specialize in a specific hobby/interest/topic and then all the /c/ communities can be centred around that topic and moderated appropriately. I think it leads to better discussion between people looking for programming topics.

      • normalmighty@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        How is it going for you today? A couple of days back the dev was having issues attempting to update the servers to the latest lemmy release, and it was causing some issues interfacing with other instances and using apps. Should be fixed now.

    • kubijoe@programming.devEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      I read earlier that users and posts from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works are not being properly loaded and displayed due to the user’s client instance de-federating from instances with problematic users.

      In other words, the behaviour of users in some instances has an effect on their reputation.

      EDIT: (Maybe not. Not trying to kindle the fire of rivalry between Lemmy instances in here. Yet. * vsauce.wav here *)

      • kurosawaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        Only Beehaw defederated. The problem today is that lemmy.world is upgrading to 18.1 and it hasn’t been going to smoothly. The server has been restarted a ton lately.