• CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works
    187·
    1 年前

    Rightfully so.

    Lemmy servers are hosted by just some people that often don’t even accept donations, shoulder the entire legal liability and are sys admin all together by themselves.

    And then there is the clownshow reddit being a gigantic company and not even able to not be a gigantic shitshow.

  • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
    69·
    1 年前

    I’m actually seeing more and more .world users getting pissed as the downtimes become more frequent now.

  • The_Worst@feddit.nl
    54·
    1 年前

    IF you want to switch to an alternative instance use the tool Lasim to synchronize your accounts: synchronize subscriptions, settings and/or blocks. Tool is available for Windows, Linux and MacOs.

  • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    1 年前

    I’ve been trying to find a smaller instance and I tried a couple, they see waaaaaay different things. I can’t even see lemmy.world on one of them. I might have to keep all of the instances and just jump around.

    • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
      332·
      1 年前

      Join mine! I run several tools in order to federate with the most popular content automatically. I’m keeping user count limited, but sign ups are open at the moment.

    • Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee
      8·
      1 年前

      Thats what I do. It’s a strength of the fediverse, and most of the apps handle account swapping pretty seamlessly.

      • TAG@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 年前

        What apps do you recommend for swapping instances?

        I have tried Jerboa and Connect. Both allow me to swap accounts from the main menu, but I am brought back to me default start view and not the community/thread I was looking at.

        • Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee
          7·
          1 年前

          I really like Liftoff for this. You can choose instances on the fly while posting, searching, or reading comments without losing your spot.

          It’s really nice.

          • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            1 年前

            I love it too. In case you didn’t know, you can just lurk on other instances without having to have an account by adding just the instance.

            • Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee
              1·
              1 年前

              I noticed that, because I went to add my beehaw account that I had created when I joined Lemmy, but I guess beehaw deleted it for being inactive or something. Beehaw still shows up on my instance list, and I kind of wish I could remove it.

    • Bappity@lemmy.worldEnglish
      103·
      1 年前

      I tried lemm.ee and it’s cool but I see so many hexbear posts on the All tab from like any of their communities spewing hate and it’s frustrating to scroll past

      • UgandaSans@reddthat.com
        2·
        1 年前

        I believe there is a way to block instances, I don’t know if it blocks comments but i believe it would block the posts

      • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        53·
        1 年前

        Yeah, that’s a nah from me for that very reason. Those people should be shouting that stuff in their bathroom, not in a place where others have to hear it.

      • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 年前

        That makes sense, thanks for explaining. I couldn’t find a lot of instances in their search though either. Can the instance person make it so they have to approve each instance or something? This is a very simple one and I can’t believe they would be defederated.

        • gabe [he/him]@literature.cafe
          4·
          1 年前

          My instance has it. It’s local communities are focused on a specific niche (books & writing) so it might not be your cup of tea though. But basically when setting it up you specify which instances it pulls from, how often it pulls and how many communities it can pull at a time. You can filter specific communities and instances, and it’ll automatically ignore instances you’ve already defederated from. By default it pulls the top /all posts from the instances you specify. Mine pulls from a couple big instances and smaller niche instances as well every day around noon to get a solid diverse amount of content. You can also auto disable NSFW communities from populating as well. It’s basically the equivalent of telling the bot to go to the front page of each instance, seeing the top posts of the day and pulling from each community that’s there to check if it’s federated into your instance or not and if it isn’t itll pull it in for you.

          With the way lemmy functions if a problematic community starts hitting /all an instance admin can just remove the community and it won’t federate into the instance anymore. Ideally there would be more granular federation options in the future, but with the things that the seeding bot does now it works pretty well.

          • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 年前

            That is great information, thank you for explaining it to me. That explains why I’ve had issues trying to find my favorite communities on the smaller instances. I think it’s misleading when they say that you can pick any instance then, it really matters for what kind of admin you get and what you can see overall. I can’t see world on this super small instance but I can see beehaw. On world, I can’t see beehaw but I can see everything else the small instance can’t. I’m starting to see why people are confused when they join if they join a small instance.

            • gabe [he/him]@literature.cafe
              3·
              1 年前

              Some of it is also federating content in, you don’t need an admin to do so for you. If you have a link to a different instances community, just pasting it into the search bar of your local instance will federate the community into your instance for you. Go to lemmyverse.net and find a community and its link then past it into the search of your local lemmy instance

              • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                1 年前

                I did that, that’s what I mean where it wouldn’t work. I’ve done it for tons of communities from world where they didn’t have it but it didn’t work on this small instance.

  • madcaesar@lemmy.world
    26·
    1 年前

    I never gave reddit 1c and blocked all ads. I donate to lemmy.world.

    I have zero anger when lemmy is down, I despised reddit, especially towards the end.

    I really wish more people would donate to lemmy I think it’s totally fair to pay for someone to manage and help with running the site.

    It’s hard to just say “volunteer”… Even if people volunteer and we can only afford to send 50% of their fee their way it’s still something…

    If we want lemmy to thrive without ads we have to all pitch in. Just give 2$/ month… If we all did that we’d be able to hire people full time…

    • Meldrik@lemmy.wtf
      15·
      1 年前

      Lemmy.world is run by the same people as mastodon.world. I guess a lot of users from mastodon.world went to Lemmy.world and the rest was word of mouth.

      • Laticauda@lemmy.ca
        11·
        1 年前

        I think the name does a lot of heavy lifting in regards to pulling in new users. It sounds more official or general because of the world part.

        • tea@lemmy.today
          8·
          1 年前

          Yeah, people just want a “generic” place because they generally don’t want to be pidgeon holed. I have nice and inoffensive lemmy.world and lemmy.today accounts because of this. I’m basically a vanilla NPC in my life and “sh.itjust.works” is simply too spicy!

      • kameecoding@programming.dev
        145·
        1 年前

        that sounds like a downside, unless you mean the kinda USSR/Chinese “communists” that are just state capitalists/feudalists

        • Laticauda@lemmy.ca
          125·
          1 年前

          Well lemmygrad.ml loves to make memes about how great the Chinese government is and how everyone who criticises the Chinese government is just mean, and they’re kind of the poster child for lemmy.ml, so…

          • kameecoding@programming.dev
            23·
            1 年前

            well those are like pro fascist people, not exactly communists, because current china is very much fascistic in it’s behavior.

            • LoveSausage@lemmygrad.ml
              33·
              1 年前

              Not like the actual fascist cuddling neo-libs that run Lemmy world . Stop using words you don’t understand. Here is a response to Lemmy world preemptively Defederate hexbear (since the wrong opinions are not allowed on Lemmy world) https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1120052

              • kameecoding@programming.dev
                11·
                1 年前

                hey man, don’t care about your whataboutism, if you think China is a communist country and you are a big fan of what you are doing, then you like fascism simple as.

                • LoveSausage@lemmygrad.ml
                  11·
                  1 年前

                  if I was, you would be incorrect. Go read a book. .world is run by fascist cuddling neolibs either way. You shouldn’t use words you don’t understand.

    • maracuya@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 年前

      wjats so good about lemmy.world compared to lemmy.ml

      nothing. lemmy.ml just makes more sense to me.i figure the devs of the protocol should be able to maintain and update their own server, and so far that has proven to be correct.

  • primalanimist@lemmy.today
    12·
    1 年前

    Same reason I am here. I had two small communities for my interests there, but it was down so often that I decided to move here AND move my communities. This place seems a lot more stable. That’s really the downside of huge servers on lemmy IMO. If communities centralize on one server, whenever that one server is down, so are the communities for everyone.

    I would totally run my own server but I’m not tech enough. I have spare hardware, and I have a 1GB fiber connection, but I am not a network security expert, so I am afraid my home IP address would be targeted and disrupt my house Internet in general. Even if I don’t allow others to create account or communities on my server, I still feel like it’s a risk for me because I am not skilled enough to deal with threats.

      • primalanimist@lemmy.today
        2·
        1 年前

        Yes. Both were only a few months old and I was the only one posting in them anyway, so I just started going back through all the links and posting them here. I’m sure there will be tools for automating it down the road, without it spamming the local feeds of the server it’s moving to, but right now I know of no such application or feature.