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I'm definitely seeing the benefits of belonging to a smaller Lemmy instance today. (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I've gone and made accounts of a handful of Lemmy instances, all of them larger, more popular ones.

... and I can't access any of them directly today, likely due to the influx of users from Reddit.

Programming.dev is alive and well though.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you explain a bit more? I am new to lemmy (reddit exile) and I thought the instances are like servers and they communicate between each other.

What do you mean by instance that fits your interest?

Thanks.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's more of a way to try to spread out the users and communities by interests. Also decreasing the server load for the instances. Instead of having 90% of the users and a majority of the communities on Lemmy.world that is basically having everyone centralized again and the website goes dark if their servers fail.