• lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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    11 days ago

    the problem with small instances is they die more frequently. sometimes without prior notice. i lost a few accounts that way. that lemmy server list said it wouldn’t matter what instance i chose, but it really did. with this account, it’s the longest time i had one.

    however, all big instances started small. so we also need ppl to grow small ones. it’s not an easy choice.

  • mesa@piefed.social
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    11 days ago

    Its a feature not a bug :)

    My issue is lemmy.world (and other bigger instances) is so big that it was just slamming my tiny personal lemmy then later piefed server, so I had to give up. There was a HUGE queue of changes for my little instance of one user.

    • Dave@lemmy.nz
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      11 days ago

      Instances only send you content for communities you (or someone on your instance) are subscribed to. If you don’t care about politics you could probably subscribe to a bunch of smaller communities and not have an issue.

      In general though Lemmy needs a lot of disk space, best to configure pictrs not to store images which helps a lot, but the database can still be huge.

    • Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
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      11 days ago

      I think the database load improved with recent versions. You can also try disabling synchronous_commit in postgres to make your database like 5x faster.