• Vlhacs@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    That’s always been the burning question for me. Why choose one over the other? What kind of attributes should I look at to do informed comparisons? Like server uptime, number of users, which instances they’ve federated with (or not federated with)…

    And how and where can I see all this in one place? If it’s truly interchangeable, which it really isn’t, then why not have a single unified web front (which makes it more like a distributed service) to reduce confusion for most normal users?

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      1 year ago

      I think the unified webfront is a bit tough, I believe right now the instance will pull from other instances if someone on the instance your in is following something from their instance

      But you can really be on any instance and follow stuff from everywhere else, the search needs a bit of work in cataloging everything so a tool like https://browse.feddit.de/ is really useful in finding communities

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      1 year ago

      Lemmy.world is noticeably slower and prone to have issues compared to the smaller instances for me.