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Reddit is fun croaked for me last week, now I'm all Lemmy!
Unless lemmy crashes, then I lurk reddit signed out with browser.
As the crashes and maintenance here become less frequent and the platform is more reliable I'm ready to leave reddit in the dust entirely
Lemmy doesn't crash, the .world server does. Just use a smaller instance like lemmy.zip or lemm.ee
I'm clearly not understanding this platform as well as I thought, I should probably watch a video or something!
The memes and boobs are great, but I'd love to get more reliable news and local information, seems like every Canadian one dies or is unpopular (fair enough given the limited user base which is still kind of nice)
And the news + politics seems to crash, but that's because I'm still using .World ...I think?
The way it works is that there’s not one lemmy site, there’s many different sites, or “instances” that people can host on their own servers—lemmy.world and lemm.ee are two of these. The catch is that they are “federated”, meaning that a user in one instance can see, vote on, comment on, etc posts from another instance. That’s why you can be on lemmy.world and see posts from [email protected]. So if lemmy.world goes down it’s as simply as typing in another instance to your address bar :^)
However, all the communities hosted on lemmy.world will be inaccessible while it is down. If you really only care to look at one of those at a particular moment, lemmy might as well be down for you.
They'll still be accessible, since instances store local copies of data from servers that they're federated. Your interactions with those communities will be invisible to anyone outside your own instance until the instance hosting the community comes back up, though.