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I'm definitely seeing the benefits of belonging to a smaller Lemmy instance today. (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by michaelcharles@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev
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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.

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[–] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I think the fediverse will function the best if everyone is split across many instances. As soon as one or several become dominant, the way they do things becomes the norm, for good or bad. That and the server load of course.

[–] ironeaglebird@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

People just seem to flock to a few popular instances. The join Lemmy website needs to push harder for joining the instance that fits your interests.

[–] acardo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you explain a bit more? I am new to lemmy (reddit exile) and I thought the instances are like servers and they communicate between each other.

What do you mean by instance that fits your interest?

Thanks.

[–] ironeaglebird@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

It's more of a way to try to spread out the users and communities by interests. Also decreasing the server load for the instances. Instead of having 90% of the users and a majority of the communities on Lemmy.world that is basically having everyone centralized again and the website goes dark if their servers fail.

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