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How to Choose a Lemmy Instance Based on Latency and Least Blocked Users? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone, I'm having trouble finding a Lemmy instance that works well for me. The main instance I use is down, and most others are too slow. I'm wondering if there's a way to choose an instance based on latency and the least blocked users. I found two relevant issues on the awesome-lemmy-instances GitHub page: issue #12 about choosing an instance based on latency and issue #17 about choosing an instance with the least blocked users. However, I'm not sure how to implement these into the main script to generate a readme with a few recommended instances. Does anyone have any advice or tips on how to choose a Lemmy instance based on these criteria? Thanks in advance for your help!

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

With Mastodon yes because it caches everything on your server, but with Lemmy no, because it hot-links media from the other server without caching it.

jeena@Abraham:~/lemmy/volumes$ du -sh *
8.0K	lemmy-ui
5.2G	pictrs
2.8G	postgres

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