And if the thought of setting up another account annoys you, I've made a tool that will migrate your account settings, subscriptions, and blocks: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

Now that does require the source instance to be up long enough to download your profile, but after that you can upload to any instance you want and be running like nothing changed in like 2 minutes.

Tbh, I kinda like that we have these growing pains. Helps folks leave out older expectations of monolithic profit-oriented social platforms. And actually put some money down to help host the specific niche community they really want to exist.

I'll probably eat these words later but, as of this moment, I stand by it.

I wish people would stop using this advice without some caveats. The instance you choose is also about the admins your choosing to have your account under.

I'll stay on Lemmy.world because I trust the admin there. Any time you jump to a new instance, you better hope it's run by levelheaded, fair-minded people.

I am subscribed to nine others.

Yeah. There is little reason to sign up on the biggest server since you can see and interact with content from any of the servers.

Yes. These are growing pains. That’s a good thing.

Only if it's Furry porn.

They're defederated with many of the instances though

They even have video uploading enabled.

I have accounts on a few instances, and lemm.ee is the quickest and most stable of them all. I don't know what they're doing, but it's great.

Having glanced at the code and taken my own instance down a few times cleaning up a surprisingly small number of automated posts, it's definitely the combination of some design choices in the code and the scale of lemmy.world. Keeping an instance up that has so many posts and communities has been difficult on my instance, and I'm basically the only user. I can imagine with the scale and lemmy.world load and publicity, it's nearly impossible until some improvements to the data layer are made.

For one example, purging a community with 1k posts and 30k comments (I was messing with a bot) took my instance down for 2 hours with the postgres database pegged at a full core minimum. And then it took down my instance. And then I restarted the database but presumably this was done in a transaction so no progress had been made.

I'm personally impressed with the amount of uptime lemmy.world has managed. And I'm also impressed with lemmy overall, but it's pretty clear there has been some rapid growth that, as it usually does, exposed some of the limits of the design and requires some improvements for the current scale.