• @[email protected]
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    651 year ago

    Ha, I applied to two smaller instances and have heard nothing but radio silence. The smaller instances are of no help if they don’t let anyone in.

    • Altair
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      1 year ago

      Use and recommend lemm.ee, lemmy.one, and vlemmy.net to others

      Seriously, stop recommending large servers when lemmy hasn’t been optimized for that yet. The point of decentralization is spreading out and still being connected; let’s not waste that advantage.

      • @[email protected]
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        141 year ago

        Ok, but what if the instance I choose just ends suddenly? Do I understand it correctly that on each one I have to create a new account and re-subscribe to all the communities etc,?

        • @[email protected]
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          181 year ago

          That’s correct though account migration is planned for some point in the future, or at least noted as a desirable feature by the Devs. Maybe even linking accounts across instances?

          Having to resubscribe to all your communities is annoying but I imagine third party apps could streamline that process when they get released/refined.

        • Altair
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          71 year ago

          Aside from what Coelacanth said, those instances are no more likely to shut down than lemmy.world (I can’t recall a Lemmy instance that’s not for personal use ever shutting down); they’ve functioned just fine for years and have even been upgraded for the surge of users too

          • @[email protected]
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            31 year ago

            Lemmy.fmhy.ml shutdown and hasnt come back yet. My understanding is that it won’t be back, but that was the instance I signed up for initially to spread the server load

      • Favrion
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        11 year ago

        But isn’t this the main website? Why can’t I use it?

        • Altair
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          71 year ago

          There is no ‘main’ website. It’s all connected. People just started joining that because it’s big and overloaded it, and now it’s having federation and stability issues.

          • Favrion
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            11 year ago

            I am new here so sorry for asking this, but am I expected to join the same communities on 75 different Lemmy clones?

            • WhiteHotaru
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              31 year ago

              Federation means you can search for your community on your instance and it will fetch all the information if you want to subscribe. I am writing this comment with my account on feddit.de. I just switched to the „all“ feed, which shows all content from all servers feddit federated with. If I am looking up a new community to join like [email protected] feddit will copy the posts for mento be able to interact with them. My reactions will be synched back.

              • Favrion
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                21 year ago

                I just created two communities: Sudoku, and Nonograms, in Lemmy World. Can you see them?

    • Ghostalmedia
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      141 year ago

      Fair point. Tye small one’s Re being hugged to death and aren’t letting any more people in, so people are gravitating towards the juggernauts, and the juggernauts are collapsing under their weight. 

      Next couple weeks should be interesting

    • Undearius
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      61 year ago

      When I first joined, I never got a confirmation that my account had been accepted. After a few minutes, I just typed the username and password I used during registration and I was able to log in.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      When I applied, I never got a notification that it got approved, but I could post and comment on that instance. So you might have been in a similar situation as me or the admins are still dealing with a large influx of people

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        Oh wow you’re totally right. I was just able to log into one that I had never heard from! Thank you, good call!

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      I started on lemmy.ml but it was unusable for the past few days. Today I managed to get into programming.dev pretty quickly and it has been smooth sailing.