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I agree with migrating the !casualconversation community to lemm.ee
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[Meta] Could we move the community to another instance to ease the load on Lemmy.world?
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Tl:dr: would you be okay to migrate the community to another instance for better performance? The change for you would just be one click to subscribe to the new community on the new instance.
Hello everyone,
As you may have noticed, there have recently been issues with instances located far geographically (i.e. Australia) to stay synced with LW since they switched to 0.19.3.
What is the issue?
Since Lemmy version 0.19, which LW updated to recently, management of requests between server has changed, potentially leading to some instances losing synchronization, especially if there is a lot of physical distance between them.
Among the impacted instances:
- reddthat.com
- aussie.zone
- lemmy.nz
- lemdro.id
Some other instances were affected in the past, such as lemmy.blahaj.zone (see their dedicated post https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/9871961)
A graph can be seen here, the number represent activities (votes, comments, posts) that are queued to be send to the instances. The number was growing because LW can not process the activities fast enough
More details can be found here:
There was also another thread detailing the centralization of active communities on LW: https://lemmy.world/post/13059576
Having most the active communities of Lemmy on one single instance can create this kind of scaling issues, which prevents some instances to stay synchronized and interact with the rest of the Fediverse. At the time of this post, Reddthat, but also Lemmy.nz, Lemdro.id and Aussie.zone are between 400.000 and 2 millions actions behind LW (https://phiresky.github.io/lemmy-federation-state/site?domain=lemmy.world).
Please note that while there are a lot of actions that are pending from LW to some servers, most of the federation between servers still happens instantly. LW is in a kind of unique position due to how many active communities and members they host.
The Lemmy code will probably be reworked to solve this issue in the future, but there is still actions we can take now to mitigate the issue.
What can we do to help with this matter? Migrate!
We discussed it within the moderation team, and we wanted to suggest you, our members, to move the community to Lemm.ee, as they are the second biggest instance, but are still able to process all actions under 1 minute on average:
That would at least solve the federation issue for our community, and members from those instances would be able to interact with it. Long term fix would require a rework of the Lemmy codebase, but that's out of scope of our proposal.
This is how we would proceed:
- asking community for feedback (that's where we are now).
- if the community agrees, go to the next steps
- create another post to redirect people to the new community (probably locking the previous community temporarily to ensure that people would go to the new one) on the new instance
- create a few posts on the new instances to ensure that the migration has been completed
What would that change for you?
If we indeed decide to migrate, you would just have to subscribe to the new community, and that would be it.
Your choice
Would you be okay with this? Feel free to share your feedback on the comments. For people who just want do give their feedback without having to comment, I will add two comments with potential opinions to choose from.
We will keep the thread open for at least 5 days (so until next Wednesday), with a potential extension if needed.
Thank you for reading everything, and see you in the comments.
You have been banned for 7 days. This is against the first rule of our community "be respectful"
Hello, this user has been banned for 7 days. Sorry about this.
Mod jumping in. Sorry to have missed the reports, most of us were asleep when they happened.
Thank you for everyone who reported harassing comments. We are going to have a look now, and probably ban a few people.
See you around.
Hello everyone,
Mod jumping in. As per the sidebar "Rule 3: Avoid controversial topics such as politics or societal debates". Locking this thread for now, thank you to the people who reported it.
Have a good one.
Mod stepping in, lot of aggressivity and borderline harassment in this thread.
I'll DM people to give them a warning.
Interesting, thank you for pointing this out.
I have been reading this thread from afar, don't have time to have a look at every comment at the moment, but if you see any insult or disrespect feel free to report.
Edit: locked, see below for details.
If I may, this is not really in the theme of this community.
It's okay to want to discuss the divergence in the Threadiverse platforms, but there are probably better places to do it than here.
Also, looking at your post, it's not really respectful
chasing for the next messiah is idiotic the sublinks guys seem shady as hell forking shit everytime
if it isn’t welcomr here you can point me in the right direction and i’ll move it.
I would suggest to post it to !fediverse@lemmy.world, where most of the discussions on those topics are happening anyway.
Sorry, I missed a few of those, I was on vacation for a few days
For people worried that this goes against the rule "no promotional content", this is obviously a charity, and also there is a difference between being a Lemmy user with a side project, and being a project leader with a Lemmy promotional account.
OP definitely belongs to the first category.
Maybe we could have "Show what you created" posts in the future.
I watched a Christmas movie with a few friends the other day, as we were hangover.
It's pretty funny when you look at it to see how many cliches they can fit
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I would like to keep the !casualconversation community on lemmy.world