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At the time of writing, Lemmyworld has the second highest number of active users (compared to all lemmy instances)

Also at the time of writing, Lemmyworld has >99% uptime.

By comparison, other lemmy instances with as many users as Lemmyworld keep going down.

What optimizations has Lemmyworld made to their hosting configuration that has made it more resilient than other instances' hosting configurations?

See also Does Lemmy cache the frontpage by default (read-only)? on !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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[โ€“] Pspspspspsps@lemmy.world 120 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I wonder if it's a branding problem, where lemmy.world sounds inviting and plausibly serious where sh.itjust.works sounds like clowntown

That was my thought process when choosing an instance tbh. I'm not a tech person, I looked at the list and lemmy.world was the first 'safest feeling' instance that had open sign up. I saw sh.itjust.works and didn't even check their sign up process, there was too many periods in the strange name and it just looks weird to me as someone not used to these things. Edit: spelling

[โ€“] Z______@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I definitely second the motion on it being a branding problem. Stuff like sh.itjust.works seem to me like something that dark basement tech nerds would come up with that is "edgy" and really only used by them and other people like them.

I'm not really into the ironic "edgy" aesthetic and part of the struggle with this transition for me has been orienting myself in the space because I don't want to commit to some "sketchy" edgelord URL

[โ€“] darkwing_duck@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

something that dark basement tech nerds would come up with that is โ€œedgyโ€ and really only used by them and other people like them.

That's exactly what it is and why I love it. The whole thing about this federated networking is that it doesn't matter where you signed up.

[โ€“] ericjmorey@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where you sign up entirely determines your local feed.

Just like with reddit, I don't use defaults.

[โ€“] Mjb@feddit.uk 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The least useful of the three feeds

[โ€“] ericjmorey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Depending on where you sign up, it could be the most useful.

[โ€“] ericjmorey@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Where you sign up greatly effects moderation and administration issues like updating the software the instance runs on to benefit from security fixes, optimizations, and enhancements.

[โ€“] Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I do think join-lemmy.org could possibly be changed to show server usage/capacity and uptime. When I initially signed up I went for lemmy.ml because what the heck is the difference? Honestly I was having all kinds of timeouts and thought the entire lemmy-verse was probably struggling. I was concerned that was the experience everyone was getting that they were going to leave because it is unsustainable.

But I ended up seeing a page showing the uptime of serversnand lemmy.world was 100% (at that point). So I figured I'd start an account here. HOLLY CRAP IT IS SO MUCH FASTER. I would have had a hard time sticking around if it all worked like lemmy.ml.

I started a community on lemmy.ml. Wish I would have done it here.

[โ€“] s4if@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

nah, I'm bit regretting not signing up on their instance. sh.itjust.works is a cool name and can be a brag point. lol. lemmy world is a bit too generalist, but I won't migrate there as ruud (the admin of lemmyworld) is doing a good job managing the instance. I appreciate that. :)

I joined sh.itjust.works because of the name, but it seems to run pretty well.

[โ€“] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

For what it is worth, I looked at sh.itjust.works . Reason I choose beehaw.org was they were more local, and had more local content and users. Plus the server focus and values seemed to fit me better. Yes their domain is a bit odd but that was not a factor for me.