AsI understand it someone is paying for me to use this so should I try to limit my time here to keep their costs down? Should I avoid leaving it open casually? Is there a way to support instances that I enjoy?
Decentralize.
With federation, there is no reason why you need to be crowding onto the most popular instance. If you find a much smaller instance and then just federate the communities that you want to it, then that’s going to spread out the load of you as a user and everyone else as a user.
Besides being better for the individual instance operators who don’t need to carry the load of the entire fediverse, decentralizing is better for the health of the fediverse. Imagine if two or three of the biggest instances went down today, how many people would be completely incapable of using Lemmy anymore?
This isn’t big tech. Somebody is paying for this, and sometimes those people just decide that they don’t want to pay for it anymore. Big instances do go down. So that being the case, decentralize. And that way even if a certain server is overloaded, you will be fine. And even if a certain server decides to go down, you will be fine. And you’ll be doing what’s right for the rest of the fediverse.
Yeah, it’s not sustainable to just flock to one instance to the point of there being no real competition. Lemmy.world now hosts nearly 3 times as many user accounts as lemmy.ml- the second-largest instance and a much older one too, and has gotten big way too fast.
Is it worth trying to switch instance at this point?
Why not? What do you have to lose?
All the comments and conversations I had with people I guess, and the posts I made I’m having this same issue with deleting my reddit account
That’s fair. No one said you had to delete the old account tho. Just make the new one your daily driver.
Alright, i guess I’ll try that. What instance would you recommend?
That I don’t know. Maybe find one that fits your interests.
best time to make that decision is the present. personally I just transferred over my subscriptions and deleted the account of the previous instance I was on. it didn’t take much time.
What instance would you recommend? Or should I try to make my own or something?
sorry! didn’t get a notification for this. but I’m liking lemm.ee because the instance is extremely well run and hasn’t had any noticable downtime or performance issues I’ve noticed with others. the person who runs it seems to really know what they’re doing and IIRC they’re a Lemmy dev.
Is being on my own instance helping or hurting? Because now all the other instances need to send federation messages to my server. Is it a net positive for getting me off their instance, even after considering that?
I think it’s a net positive. Plus, others may want to join your instance if they’re happy with your vibe.
I wish kbin had other instances…
Easy to find a lot for Mastodon however. Is there a migration guide to transfer accounts somewhere?You can host a kbin instance with little resources if you have a VPS. Otherwise- you can find kbin instances with open sign-ups here: https://fedidb.org/software/kbin
Thanks for this! Not sure why I never actually bothered to look into other kbin instances.
If you find a much smaller instance and then just federate the communities that you want to it
What does this mean? If I’m on a small instance will I still see the same posts if I filter by All as of I’m on a big community?
You’ll see content from any community that a member of your instance is subscribed to. So on very small instances that haven’t yet “discovered” other communities, the All page will be sparse.
Keeping in mind that an instance is the specific server you’re on, and a community is equivalent to a subreddit:
If you’re on a small instance, then you’ll be able to see all the posts from any community you join as if you’re on the bigger instance. The local “All” will show all the posts from any community anyone has subscribed to on your instance.
On my instance, I’ve got posts from communities on many different instances.
No. Go subscribe to things.
Thanks, Im new to this and less tech inclined than some so your reply is exactly what Im looking for.
Lemmy.world disagrees and wants to be the next reddit. :p
You can support instances by donating
This. No need to be weird about it. Just hand over the money. $5 a month is heaps.
Try using external services for pictures. That’s pretty much it, no need to limit yourself. You can leave it open casually as well. Some instances accept donations if you want to support them.
what are some good services you recommend?
https://imgbb.com/ is decent for small to medium-sized images, I’ve used them a couple of times.
I personally use Imgur, though I’m sure there are better alternatives, I just haven’t had time to look at it. But imgur works, you just copy the direct link to image in the URL field in Lemmy and the image shows.
I’m glad I have webservers myself, great spot for those images.
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No. Many images are stored locally, using a built-in service called pict-rs. Anytime that you directly attach an image to a post without linking to an external service like imgur, it’s uploaded to the local server, and then hosted by that service anywhere it’s displayed.
Contribute, both financially and by providing content, and don’t be a dick.
A lot of non-tech communities just need one or two people to post a couple of links in them each day, to get the ball rolling. Then they have a chance at growth.
Don’t just read and reply, share new content. You can find links on mastodon, your RSS reader or even Reddit.
It seems that the images are stored on imgur
