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Advice for now settled new Lemmy users. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Whether you are a Reddit refugee (I am one) or just randomly stumbled upon Lemmy and decided to join lemmy.world, welcome to the Fediverse.

If you have been here for long enough and settled in and now finally feel comfortable with Lemmy, I highly advice you to move to smaller instances. I just newly left Lemmy.world to join Lemm.ee.

We need to capitalize on the decentralized nature of the Fediverse and Lemmy instead of having everyone joining one instance. This will benefit the admins of Lemmy.world a lot as they would not have to deal with such a high amount of users. It also leaves room for new users to join and have a good experience rather than an experience filled with server outages where they will give up on Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It would still be better to have multiple "large" servers, instead of only one or two, which is currently the case. I really don't think that it is a good thing to have a big difference between the biggest and the next biggest servers, as it effectively centralizes the content around the biggest instance.

I however agree that it doesn't make sense to have tons of tiny instances.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I keep saying that the US needs to have its own big instance (or several) to host all those communities about US cities and sports teams that nobody else needs to care about, as well as potentially a good chunk of users and to exist as a large server alternative to lw.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

People who see it this way are likely not from the US.

People who could make it happen must be from the US.

:-/