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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] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Try another instance, as close to your home as possible.

You can browse the map here https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good idea, opened up another account with our northern Canadian brother sh.itjust.works/ for backup

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

Yeah, I also have one on lemmy.ca, the ping is more consistent (both are 2-3ms).

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

That’s really neat but the closest servers are private, lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wouldn't sweat so much picking a close server as long as it has enough users to be around for a while, reasonable rules, and isn't under too much strain. Just by getting off the big servers, you'll have a much faster experience and access to the same content.

I moved from lemmy.world to this one that specializes in my interests, and it's running great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those are good tips, thanks, I found a smaller one recently and it’s MUCH better, things are actually loading now, lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's comfy; my setup almost never fails to load or post anything after load-balancing myself elsewhere.

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

Good tips! I should have explained a bit more, but by getting a server as close as possible, your ping should theoretically be lower than an instance that's far from you (I know, the internet is not a straight line to the server).

The best way to test this is by pinging the server in a CMD prompt/terminal.

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

Indeed. If I remember correctly VLemmy is in Ireland, and yet I've gotten consistently fast responses from it except during server upgrades. I think the size of the instance really does matter here.