I like that Lemmy can post on other instances (communities on other instances), but thinking about it, would that not present a potential issue with centralizing information about a topic on one instance?

I know it’s kind of similar to having themed Mastodon instances (and I also don’t really understand those), but it seems like a potential issue?

I know multiple instances can have the same communities, but that then seems like fracturing the conversation?

Could this just be due to my limited knowledge/use of the fediverse?

  • @jaxOPA
    2•1 year ago

    That’s true, it has been pretty seamless. Though, for example, my instance doesn’t seem to have any of the comments from this thread, and I’m not really sure why…

    I might have spoken too soon, checking again and I can see them now. Also, interestingly, my mastodon account is following my Lemmy account and also able to see my main post plus the comments/responses, which is pretty slick.

    • @[email protected]
      2•1 year ago

      I run my own, so I know this pain well. One thing I had to do was make sure I selected EVERY language in the admin settings, and in my user settings I selected nothing. Then it took about a day for my server to federate out better and stabilise. Now I get new posts no problem, though stuff from the past doesn’t show up.

      I know the language issue is a weird one, and it’s being actively worked on in newer releases.

      • @jaxOPA
        1•1 year ago

        Ah, maybe that’s part of the problem I’m seeing. I’ll have to check my language settings. Do you select a language per comment/post then? I’m not entirely sure the port of that…

        • @[email protected]
          2•1 year ago

          I don’t even touch the button right now to avoid problems until things are fixed up. You can also see what instances you’ve federated with by clicking the “Instances” link on the bottom of your instances page. Eventually the list grows pretty large all on its own and content comes in faster I find.

          • @jaxOPA
            1•1 year ago

            Huh, apparently I’m up to 70+ instances, that’s pretty cool!

            • @[email protected]
              3•1 year ago

              Yeah the list keeps growing! There are a lot of us with single-user instances that exist. I prefer it because even when one instance falls down from load I can still read some stuff, and I have a copy of the posts in the event one fails/shuts down so I never lose any tech knowledge I may refer back to later.

              • @jaxOPA
                1•1 year ago

                That makes a lot of sense! Awesome, I think that negates a lot of the concerns I had at the start of this thread. Turns out people have already thought about these issues lol

                • @[email protected]
                  1•1 year ago

                  Mastrodon migration answered a lot of these questions thankfully too, so Lemmy gets the benefits of it. So far mainly what I’ve seen have been performance growing pains more than anything

                  • @jaxOPA
                    1•1 year ago

                    True, I’m in the Lemmy Matrix chat and lemmy.ml keeps coming up cuz it seems super slow at times.

                    I am kinda surprised by how little resources Lemmy/Mastodon use up on a single user instance though. Significantly less than when I was trying to run a Matrix node.