Probably my fault - and other folks like me. Yall are having a pretty large influx of new users, so hopefully it’ll even out soon. I see a lot of loading errors too, but since I blame me, I’m dealing well with it.
I definitely understand it would be irritating for long-time users though. Sorry!
Maybe the longtime users, but anyone who’s joined in the last month has been waiting for this mass migration to liven up the place. I think we’d all trade some temporary slowness for a bulk of new users, I saw a post earlier saying lemmy.world has grown 40% in the first 12 hours after reddit killed third-party apps.
Hell, I was on kbin.social when the blackout started, and that site went pretty much unusable.
One option is to make another account on at least one other kbin or lemmy instance. You can at least browse with that when the instance that has your main account is sluggish or otherwise having problems. Not to mention that it will take some load off that main instance, help other users on that instance.
Even if you don't want to make an account, you can at least browse without being signed in using another instance. Can't customize the settings, but that may not be a huge issue for you. I've popped over to fediverse.boo, another kbin instance, to anonymously browse when kbin.social, where my account is, has issues.
It's a neat perk of the Fediverse that that is an option. On early Reddit, when the site went down -- and it did that a lot back when -- it was down.
Yeah, but a lot of those Lemmy accounts are inactive ones being auto-created by bots on Lemmy instances that didn't have a CAPTCHA set up. That shouldn't produce load for lemmy.world.
That's why I included the accounts that were active the last 30 days as well as the overall user numbers. Though the overall numbers (for Lemmy) seem to be sinking hard every now and then, certainly due to bots and or botted instances being deleted, the number of active users however is rising steadily.
I’m sure the bots will arrive in force as the place grows, but the number of magazines, posts, and comments has really taken off from when I joined kbin a few weeks back. This place is getting really enjoyable with a lot of content showing up.
I imagine they are reaching there user capacity. Lemmy was never designed infrastructure wise to support so many. It was supposed to be a slow growing platform of small communities
I don't see anything about kbin that makes it inherently faster than Lemmy. Lemmy.world is just larger, and is growing quickly, where as kbin.social got a major server upgrade during the last wave.
well just like you said, maybe it's because lemmy can't keep up with the growing users. if ever they fix it, I might use it primarily, but for now I juggle between those two
US NW here, yeah its been really slow this morning, since around 6am or so
commenting appears to hang/not commit but it does go though if you try to open the parent comment from another tab you’ll see the comment went through (probably just increasing the load, but eh…)
Lemmy.world content has been pretty delayed lately but I hadn't observed that always being the case. You might try out some of the other large instances while they catch up to the latest influx. That said I see 22 replies to your post from lemmy.world and 18 replies from my personal kbin instance so it's getting a lot better!
Just as a note, since it looks like you're using an account on lemmy.blahaj.zone and maybe chose that Lemmy instance as an arbitrary alternative to Lemmy.world -- that's something of a special-interest instance oriented towards creating a safe space for transexuals and the like. Not that the people there are bad folk or anything, but it might not be the instance I'd choose if I were going for just another lemmy.world, but one that wasn't having technical problems and was usable.
Some other lemmy instances with comparatively-large pre-Reddit-blackout communities, like beehaw.org, are similar, and I think that that may be why people just looking for a reasonable instance migrate there -- they see the user count on lemmy.fediverse.observer and pick them without thinking much, because the Fediverse Observer provides little useful information about the instances. I kind of wish that lemmy.fediverse.observer and kbin.fediverse.observer would let lemmy and kbin instances publish a one-line description or something to help people get a quick idea of what the instance is about.
I also saw someone from kbin.social comment on a community on pawb.social the other day upset that there was a furry on there, probably not aware that they were on pawb.social and that that instance was dedicated to providing a friendly environment for furries. The community name was just "tech". Someone in that thread, clearly thinking through the deeper implications, pointed out that it's not always obvious what the instance culture is about. If a lemmy or kbin instance could put a one-line description in their metadata, then the lemmy or kbin web UIs -- as well as the third-party clients -- could display that line of text while users are visiting communities on that instance, to give them a quick idea of what the instance and community both are about, avoid situations like the above.
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