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Fracturing the conversation also isn't a super bad thing. From my end, I subscribe to many of the same type of topic across multiple instances, and it's seamless to me for reading and replying. If one instance suddenly went away I'm sure users would quickly migrate to one of the duplicates.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Huh, apparently I'm up to 70+ instances, that's pretty cool!
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.
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
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
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.
Lot of it is because a bunch of it is written in Rust. Makes a huge difference in the performance, and the devs do a great job
Yeah, I haven't had too many major issues with Lemmy or Mastodon now that you mention it. Lemmy's install docs are... messy, but once running it's been without issue. Hats off to the devs for that.
Yup, there isn't any sync for content. Only push. No rss feed.