Lemmy.world grew from about 51k users when third-party reddit apps started to shut down to about 84.8k users at the time of this post.
Definitely felt some growing pains in the past few days, but it’s great to see the platform more active now that things have become more stable.
So, welcome reddit expats!
Can’t recommend spinning up a second account on a smaller instance enough. It’s made the experience so much faster than it was using my account on .world
I wish more of the apps let you enter a custom server URL which would encourage this aspect of the fediverse. I currently use connect for lemmy, its great but only has 3 static server options.
The 3 options are just shortcuts. You can type in any server you want.
you absolutely can in connect, just tap the text field and enter in the domain
Oh yeah I’ve done the same thing. My primary is on Lemmy.world I’m posting this from my secondary account, Sh.itjust.works is relatively fast for me and a lot less error prone I’ve noticed.
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This, but also an instance with a good ping, close to your house.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map
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Which lemmy would you recommend? I chose world because I thought it’s the international version since there’s no lemmy specific for my country.
Someone shared this instance map yesterday. It’s not a complete map of instances as far as I can tell, but perhaps it can help you find a smaller one closer to you.
Mali and Estonia seem popular for some reason.