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Spread Out: How To Speed Up Lemmy (lemmy.fediverse.observer)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by miles@discuss.online to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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There are many lemmy instances in the world, but currently most people are using lemmy.world. This is why everything has gotten so slow.

You don't have to delete your lemmy.world account, but check out https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map it's a geo-based map of lemmy instances -- explore stuff nearest you, pick one, sign up, search , subscribe and begin interacting with your favorite communities. It's easy, free and it will be faster. Try it!

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[–] IceQuest@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I tried to migrate to another instance by rejoining the same communities as this account. However I can't seem to find some of the communities anymore through the other instance's search page. There's no indication that there's any defederation going on.

I still have no idea what a proper community joining process is. I just go to the search page, type it in and scroll through the random comments until I find a link to a community.

If only I could just copy the community link, right now it'll just open up with lemmy.world again, so I have to go through the other instance's search page. Please let me know if there's a guide of any kind.

Edit: Ok you need to manually type the URLs. E.g. if you wanted to open this community on lemmy.ml, type "lemmy.ml/c/fediverse@lemmy.world"

That's a kinda clunky experience ngl. How is the average normie going to feel about appending URLs in the address bar tho.

[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Community discovery on Lemmy so far feels incredibly difficult. Even browsing "all" I feel I get the same 10-15 communities in rotation.

How am I supposed to find the medium-sized communities about specific subjects that don't end up on "all?"

[–] Spzi@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

How am I supposed to find the medium-sized communities about specific subjects that don’t end up on “all?”

Search by keyword:

Here's a curated directory: https://sub.rehab/

You can also checkout

  • /c/findacommunity@lemmy.ml
  • /c/communitypromo@lemmy.ca
[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 1 points 2 years ago

I just put the url in the search box on the Lemmy webui sand search. I find a lot of the time it says nothing found but if I click search a second tinder it finds it so it must be a bug. Then click the community and subscribe.

[–] Pleonasm@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

As far as I understand, your instance is only aware of a community on another instance if at least one user on your instance has subscribed to that community on the other instance. Perhaps that's what you're experiencing?

[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Community discovery on Lemmy so far feels incredibly difficult. Even browsing "all" I feel I get the same 10-15 communities in rotation.

How am I supposed to find the medium-sized communities about specific subjects that don't end up on "all?"