Lemmy resembles the old reddit experience so well that they even emulate the old reddit server performance

The big user experience problem is everyone is getting funneled into Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml, and they can’t scare fast enough.

But Lemmy is federated. So signup for a smaller instance. You’ll still be able to subscribe and post to communities on other instances.

Still better than the official reddit app.

I want to be mad but FFS Reddit had Conde Nast money for most of its shittery so they had NO excuse except incompetence.

At least Fediverse servers are typically Steve's old laptop or some shit so it's understandable.

search actually works here.

already better than old reddit.

Given the... frankly absurd rate at which people are signing up to servers, and subscribing to other servers, and posting and commenting and upvoting and...

I mean it's getting a bit hairy, and user growth was already following a very steep growth curve. Reddifugees are hugging all instances to death.

It just feels so weird to have big threads with good fresh discussions going on hours after the post.

Not to say there isn't an occasional asshole here and there during this wave, but I don't think reddit has ever felt like this at any point.

Would upvote but I keep getting server-side errors

I love that your first instinct after being here just a few hours is to bitch about things. Maybe donate and thank the devs for the free work they're doing so you don't have to deal with the bullshit on Reddit, and then in a month or so when the user influx has calmed down a bit, then you can bitch if you want.

And here I am laughing on my speedy private instance. For real, the best part of Lemmy is if your experience is bad you can hop to a different instance and not miss a post

It's early days here. Give it some time...

Does the Narwhal bacon again?

If you’re bothered by performance, donate to the server to get better resources. Lemmy.world added more servers and load balancing, and there’s a patreon to donate $1 a month.

See the sidebar on the frontpage:

Legit the first thing I noticed. It’s actually not that hard to find the community you’re looking for.

For those of you who, like me, are coming from Apollo you guys can try wefwef.app. It’s great

To be fair, it worked well right before reddit cut off api access. This will probably happen everytime reddit does something stupid to drive away users. In other words, it could happen every two week based on how spez is lately.

The instances are volunteer-ran and make no profit, give them some time to iron everything out

Yeah, every time I try to upvote something, it'll take like 10-15 seconds to register

It's great to be here. All part of the fun of being apart of something new.

Yeah but these guys aren't trying to make a profit from us and Reddit had venture capital money.

I forgive it. It has tremendous potential

All the old Redditors jumped ship. Let's hope the new redditors and spam bots don't jump ship with them.

You gotta use lemmy.world for the OG experience 😂

Ngl. I am having fun.

Not sure if this is meant to be negative or positive but I for one like all the growing pains and issues. It makes the whole experience a little more engaging for me. I really like reading up on what problems are happening and how the teams are working towards solutions. I especially like the technical details that are just a little over my head because it’s fun to learn about!

The best part of this post, is the segue into the new !showerthoughts community

It's slower than reddit ever was.... at least in the 14 years I was there.

Laughs in lemm.ee

If you're on one of the bigger instances (lemmy.world for example) use https://lemmyverse.net/ to pick a smaller, less crowded instanceto call home.

I created an account on reddthat.com earlier today, and it's way less laggy than lemmy.world (my initial instance).

Hopefully in time lemmy gains functionality thatmakis account backup/porting easy so moving instances in nbd.

I'm pretty new to this federation idea, but if I'm on a small instance of Lemmy and browsing c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world, would I still see degraded performance?

Are the instances mirroring the content of the communities hosted in another instance?

(Edit: thanks everyone, your responses are really helpful!)

The top three instances a currently overcrowded. I recommend checking out a smaller instance (for example https://laguna.chat).

Smaller instances are still able to access to same content. But it is just a different server that processes the content.

I would just wish there would be a new Reddit view as well. It is just so annoying having to click on the images to zoom in

Well, if its too slow, you can just self-host it.

I even got an error page the first time I tried to load this post. Just like old times! 🥲

Try lemm.ee instance. It is REALLY fast compared to lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works. And it is also general instance, not some theme-specific.

Gotta start somewhere...

Yeah, this is taking me back to 2013 reddit. Really enjoying it here. I'm hoping it continues to walk down this path.

My app erroring out halfway through reading the title

Join a smaller instance. That is what I did and I’m having no performance issues now.

That depends on the instance you’re on.

Even the user interface brings back the memory...

They even brought over the nobody replies to my comments part. Crazy!

Is that why I need to click to subscribe 5 times having it time out every time?

I expected to see issues with just the offending instance even on another instance account, but hopped onto one of my smaller ones and found this post again much faster because it didn't take forever to load the page and again to load into the comments.

That's pretty dope!

Even the servers are method acting

Bottom text 🤓

It's just lemmy.world, because majority of people jumped on it.

https://files.catbox.moe/kfvn0u.png

Use different instances to get better experience (you can still subscribe to communities that aren't on your server)

https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances/tree/main

I’m worried about the search function. Every post ever made?

I have been having alright time with my instance, on Lemmy World instances though I have noticed a big delay in posting, I think it might just be Lemmy.World getting hammered

i still get substribe in peding. it was one week ago.

Give em a break! They weren't ready for this lol

This is all I want. Just text, nothing more. Just like reddit.compact version that they took away.

Like the good old times

Wooow haha. Happy to have this though, regardless of early hiccups. 10 years on Reddit has left a surprisingly sizable hole in my daily routine.

I just wish any of my comments would go through today!!

I purposefully avoided the “main” lemmy instances because I thought it would be more in the “fediverse spirit” to contribute to a smaller community, I joined Lemmy.ca as a Canuck.

Anything to make you feel at home 🥰

Yea I'm having a lot of issues like crashing, and it takes a minute to "send" my post. Is that normal? I'm using "connect for lemmy" on android.

I had heard about potential performance issues with larger instances, so I joined feddit.uk since I'm from the UK. We had a bug with sorting by hot but updating to 0.18 fixed it

haha. hopefully we'll also see some posts soon praising the improved server performance, like the good ol' Reddit days.

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Check out mlmym if you want to see it resemble the old.reddit experience too.
generic live instance
old.lemmy.world
old.lemmy.ca
github

Give em a break! They weren't ready for this lol

Theres hope