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search actually works here.
already better than old reddit.
Is that why I need to click to subscribe 5 times having it time out every time?
Yep. Try registering a new account on different instance that isn't as crowded, the issues will be much better.
Like the good old times
And here I am laughing on my speedy private instance. For real, the best part of Lemmy is if your experience is bad you can hop to a different instance and not miss a post
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This is all I want. Just text, nothing more. Just like reddit.compact version that they took away.
For those of you who, like me, are coming from Apollo you guys can try wefwef.app. It’s great
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Anything to make you feel at home 🥰
All the old Redditors jumped ship. Let's hope the new redditors and spam bots don't jump ship with them.
Unfortunately, if there's any hope of lemmy really taking off, they'll come eventually. All popular sites and services have to deal with it at some point.
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Yeah but these guys aren't trying to make a profit from us and Reddit had venture capital money.
It's slower than reddit ever was.... at least in the 14 years I was there.
I joined a smaller instance that more fits my interests, but is still federated with the "popular" ones I like. So far it works great.
I still haven’t got a clue what this means. Goddamn it.
I saw this post earlier in my all feed. The picture is a nice infographic that may help understanding.
Lemmy is not one big application like reddit. Instead everyone can download Lemmy and host their own >instance<. Each instance can have their own users, their own communities/subs and admins.
Since Lemmy is part of the >fediverse<, it means that each Lemmy instance can interact with each other, and can even interact with other applications of the fediverse (like mastodon, which is more similar to twitter).
Because everyone can make their own Lemmy instance, it is also possible for bad faith actors to make one. They could create many accounts on their own instance, and try to mess with the other Lemmy instances by either posting a lot of comments, reporting a lot of content, or a number of other things. To prevent that from being an actual issue, each instance has the option to >defederate< other instances. (I am not 100% sure on the following so please correct me if I'm wrong) Defederating means that users of instance A cannot interact with the content or users of instance B, if instance A defederated instance B.
Since the performance of website is dependent on the instance you use, you can try to find another instance with less users and a more stable server. As long as it is not defederated by many other servers it will be effectively be the same experience as being on another instance.
Could I think of the federation as like nations giving each others' citizens a visa, or is that too off the mark to use as a metaphor?
I think it kinda works, but it misses the mark in that you don't need to 'travel' to another server to see the communities and posts from that server.
It's more like every instance is a post office, and when you make a post or comment at your local post office, they also send it out to a bunch of other post offices. So when you rock up to your local post office (instance), you can see all the activity at that post office, but also all the activity that has come in from federated post offices.
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Since all the instances are independent, it's going to be very difficult to recreate completely the experience of a corporate behemoth. But it's that independence which also give this platform true freedom and potential longevity, so the tradeoffs seem worth it. It should also be said that the load overall has gone up a lot since reddit just shut off the 3rd party apps officially, so we should see better results moving forward as things equalize after the rush.
It's funny seeing famiar usernames, heh.
It's speed largely depends on the instance you're connected to. There's definitely scaling problems going on with some instances.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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