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Lemmy.world grew from about 51k users when third-party reddit apps started to shut down to about 84.8k users at the time of this post.

Definitely felt some growing pains in the past few days, but it's great to see the platform more active now that things have become more stable.

So, welcome reddit expats!

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's impressive! It also definitely explains why lemmy.world has been slow to respond in my Lemmy app.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Can't recommend spinning up a second account on a smaller instance enough. It's made the experience so much faster than it was using my account on .world

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

broke: register on one of the main instances
woke: register on a small but well-run instance
bespoke: spin up your own instance

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What are the space/bandwidth requirements? I've got plenty of space on my NAS, sounds like it could be a decent project.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i had mine up for about a week, been running lcs for quite a few days, and both actively use other spaces (like this one) and post a lot in the ones on my instance. currently i'm sitting at 4.5 GB for pictrs (not a typo, that's what the picture server is called), 2.3 GB for the postgres database, and 5.4 GB for docker. total disk usage is about 14 GB for now, i expect it to grow in the future but idk yet how fast it will be. people are reporting about 100 MB a day since the reddit migration, and tbh that might check out.

if you're hosting it on your own nas you're probably gonna be fine space-wise. i'd just recommend to layer a vpn and/or a cache in-between -- i don't know exactly how to do this, i went straight for the cloud route, but i have seen people in [email protected] doing that, and the lemmy admin matrix chat is nice too.

just fyi, your instance does have to be reachable on a domain if you want federation to work. also, keep everything you can on the defaults and only change things one by one, the error messages are not very helpful. i spent like a day trying to debug why lemmy wasn't starting up at first, turns out i just had an instance name longer than 20 characters.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

i spent like a day trying to debug why lemmy wasn't starting up at first, turns out i just had an instance name longer than 20 characters.

I was also bitten in the ass by this, it's why my instance is on a one-character subdomain.

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

I've had my own instance running on a puny 1VCPU/1G RAM instance at Vultr since the beginning of June and the resource usage has been negligible. Drive space is the largest resource it's consumed, it's at about 12GB of drive space consumed in a month.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I wish more of the apps let you enter a custom server URL which would encourage this aspect of the fediverse. I currently use connect for lemmy, its great but only has 3 static server options.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

wefwef has this feature!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

The 3 options are just shortcuts. You can type in any server you want.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

you absolutely can in connect, just tap the text field and enter in the domain

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

You can add custom instances on Liftoff ([email protected]). It has .world, .ml, and beehaw as the defaults but you can add instances manually as well. I'm using it right now and added lemm.ee

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

Thunder allows this and has good performance. It's on the IzzyOnDroid f-droid repo but hasn't hit playstore yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah I've done the same thing. My primary is on Lemmy.world I'm posting this from my secondary account, Sh.itjust.works is relatively fast for me and a lot less error prone I've noticed.

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

This, but also an instance with a good ping, close to your house.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map

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

Things are working so much better now that I switch. It was just a nightmare on world.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Which lemmy would you recommend? I chose world because I thought it's the international version since there's no lemmy specific for my country.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

You can check out this page that keeps an updated list of "recommended" instances based on their performance and various other stats. Take a peek and see if their rules sound like something you want to be part of.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm posting from my secondary account on lemm.ee , which is a another nice general purpose server that's very responsive performance wise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I'm on lemmy.one and have had zero issues

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

Mali and Estonia seem popular for some reason.

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

Someone shared this instance map yesterday. It's not a complete map of instances as far as I can tell, but perhaps it can help you find a smaller one closer to you.