Just joined Lemmy after observing how much of a mess Reddit is now. Not really sure how all the parts of this service work together, but am looking forward to trying it out.
Thought I’d share my on-boarding process here in the vaguelly general spot. Perhaps others showing up will want to share their impressions of joining up as well.
I’m a long-time user of Mastodon, so already have a good sense of the Fediverse, its philosophy and workings - so I get how this is set up.
Selecting a server/instance on a Fedi service is always a bit of a decision. I tried to avoid the picking the biggest one here (which I did on Masto and still mean to shift away from it). First small server I tried seemed to die during the signup. Was happy to see Lemmy.one was pretty smooth. Some of the profile settings are a bit cryptic - so I’ll have to figure out what they mean.
Next I shall survey the communities available and hang out a bit. Do people do hashtags here?
Anyway - Hello World.
I’m certainly not an expert (I’m also new to lemmy), but at least in the case of lemmy.ml (where I first signed up for, too) their servers had trouble due to the sheer number of new users. It’s why I decided to move to lemmy.one which has been smoother in my experience since they’re not facing the same issue (yet?).
Ya, after a day or two, I noticed it was almost impossible to browse because of the lag and stuff, so I switched to lemmy.ca and it’s not facing the same issue anymore as well (for now). It’s just smoother. Kept the same username and profile pic though.
I guess the reason you shouldn’t pick the biggest instance is because the server will probably have a hard time keeping up and will cause issues with posting, commenting, browsing, etc.