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[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

You don't need to, you only need to go after the large ones. I'm already on my third instance, and having to move is such a giant pain in the ass, I don't think I'd do it again.

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[–] quicklime@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

What motivated you to switch instances? Did your early ones fill up with junk posts etc? I was thinking that since I use a reader app (Boost for Lemmy) and everything is federated it wouldn't matter much if I joined one of the large and general-purpose instances.

Or was it more about performance issues... service/instance traffic overload leading to slow response time?

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[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

Performance issues, which of course is the issue with federation. Sometimes it was my instance having issues, other times it was the instance I was posting too. One of them defederated from a large one and didn’t allow downvoting, which I would forget via a third party app and it would hang before erroring out.

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[–] quicklime@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago

Thanks for the info! Yeah, it's going to take the fediverse in general some time to get smoother. I'm excited to watch it improve even if the pace is slow.