Perhaps having the lemmy main site suggest servers with less load in a dynamic way would help with this. Instance xyz is now recommended on the main page due to having less users. The main problem I see with that is that there are different "themed" and what is suggested may not match up with the user's preferences and tastes.

Thanks for setting up and managing the instances.

Hello, after reading all the comments, I realized that I share the same questions (sort of) with the others.

Thank you for replying and clarify things

Cheers Ruud. And thank you 😊

It does matter where you call home though because beehaw just defederated and there was quite a lot of good content there.

You're seeing mostly CPU bottlenecks I assume?

What's your RAM and storage situation looking like?

That's what we mean when we talk about federation!

All the instances are interconnected (unless they block each other). You can post, vote, comment, and even become a moderator of a community on any other instance.

In many ways, it's all one big site. In many ways it's also not, but to the end user who just wants to browse around, it's not as important as people make it out to be.

There's some rough edges around community discovery, cross-instance linking, etc. But the devs are working hard on fixing those issues.