For any new UK users to Lemmy, consider making an account over at Feddit.uk. It’s an growing instance with a specific community focus on all things UK!

I’m not a admin of that instance, but made my own account after Lemmy.ml became too slow to use and the difference is night and day, at the time of writing.

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    2 years ago

    I just went straight to Feddit.UK after reading that it was best to choose small, but not too small instances. And yeah, it’s been great. The only issue I’ve found is that joining communities from other instances can be slow - I assume that if you’re the first subscribers on your instance it has to do some fetching of data. Yesterday it took me 10-15 minutes to join one community.

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      2 years ago

      I found a PSA post from Lemmy devs earlier on that I brought to Tom’s attention, it will hopefully address this issue.

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        2 years ago

        Ah cool. Thanks. Yeah, I saw something about worker threads or something and wondered if that was a cause.

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      2 years ago

      Clicking on these causes Jerboa to crap out for me. But as someone else pointed out if I click on community links via another users profile it takes me to the community where I can subscribe, even if it’s in another instance.

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    2 years ago

    Just created an account here after using lemmy.world for several hours yesterday. Definitely seems a bit quicker using this instance, thanks!

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      2 years ago

      You can see how Lemmy and it’s users are building as we go, it’s really neat to watch it all fall into place naturally

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    2 years ago

    Joined up and it seems to be working great so far.

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    Good info, thanks

    EDIT: wow, so much quicker to post

  • Vinnyboiler
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    2 years ago

    I joined a few days ago and can reccomend creating an account there. As Lemmy grows, the need for more instances grows as well.