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It seems the lemmy.ml instance is really slow, times out, etc. I fear this will be a bad experience for new users migrating from reddit. Anything we can do? Any place to donate to scale it up, or would it be a good idea for existing users to migrate ourselves to different instances?
edit: I did find the donate heart at the top. Not sure how fast that'll improve things but I did make a small donation.
the more immediate solution is that they removed lemmy.ml from the recommended instances page https://join-lemmy.org/instances
If anyone is looking for a new home I just started a new instance called wizanons.dev! We're magic themed and friendly! LGBTQIA+ friendly and we have a !magic community for aspiring wizards, mages, warlocks, and witches. Discussion on mysticism and psychedelics welcome! Always looking for more friendly apprentices and fellow arcane researchers.
No. I don't think I will.
I hope it's not inappropriate to comment this here, but if anyone's looking for another space to join, I'm in the process of building Krab Borg. It would be lovely to have people to help fill it out and diversify the communities, as well as suggest what the local ones should look like as I have no idea.
I'm trying to balance not reinventing the wheel/duplicating existing communities 100 times but also still supporting the idea of decentralisation and creating some duplicates (though this isn't hard and fast, I'm open to feedback).
I've seeded it with some communities from other servers (including a bunch from lemmy.ml) to get things moving a bit as well.
is it possible to move an existing profile to a new server, like on Mastodon? or I need to create a new one and "start over"?
Right now, there is no import/export. It's a known useful feature, but the devs have no time to work on it (I've been following all the optimization work they've been doing on github, I don't know if they sleep). You'll have to start over atm, sorry.
What if I wanted to create an instance where upvotes are disabled? Could that be possible? @nutomic
Another thing:
We do need more site admins to help us handle the applications and moderation.
For obvious reasons, we prefer ppl who have been here for a long time, and post / comment consistently. If you'd like to help us out, so that nutomic and I can focus on coding, that would be splendid.
Over at https://join-lemmy.org/ , when someone clicked on "Join a Server", they are presented with a list of instances, it's not that obvious that these are cross-accessible (yes, the homepage mentioned it, but not here), and people are bound to look for one with the most users.
Perhaps, add a simple TLI5 explanation/diagram explaining how Lemmy works on https://join-lemmy.org/instances .
(The documents are also too wordy for most people to care.)
Edit: If you moderate a large subreddit, do not link your users directly to lemmy.ml in your announcements
How/which URL should we link to then? Now is the best time to get users to switch to Lemmy so we need to make it as newbie friendly as possible. Already the application process has put off some people (I do like that bit though, keeps away the low effort folks). Thanks.
How/which URL should we link to then?
My (somewhat) hot take is that large migrating subreddits should probably host their own communities, which is what we did when we told people on r/PrivacyGuides to move to Lemmy. Or at the very least, actually coordinate with instance admins beforehand about all of this, clearly lemmy.ml isn't the ideal choice for this situation.
Ok. I have what might be a strange question. Can you host a server but disable community creation (even if only temporarily)? So, the server would essentially just be a platform from which others could access content published elsewhere in the Fediverse. I'm assuming the load would then be on the database behind my instance, correct?
I'm a Platform/Cloud/DevOps Engineer (the titles are always changing) working in software. I'm reasonably sure I could host an instance to help out without much difficulty. But I'm not sure I'm ready to jump into the moderator role, though I realize I'll need to deal with those who break some basic rules.
Is there a way to sort new Lemmy instances ? I check Lemmy on a daily basis for joining new instances that meet my interest. I wish there is a way to check only the new instances, maybe email notifications or something ?