Hi everyone, I’m having trouble finding a Lemmy instance that works well for me. The main instance I use is down, and most others are too slow. I’m wondering if there’s a way to choose an instance based on latency and the least blocked users. I found two relevant issues on the awesome-lemmy-instances GitHub page: issue #12 about choosing an instance based on latency and issue #17 about choosing an instance with the least blocked users. However, I’m not sure how to implement these into the main script to generate a readme with a few recommended instances. Does anyone have any advice or tips on how to choose a Lemmy instance based on these criteria? Thanks in advance for your help!

  • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.net
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    1 year ago

    With Mastodon yes because it caches everything on your server, but with Lemmy no, because it hot-links media from the other server without caching it.

    jeena@Abraham:~/lemmy/volumes$ du -sh *
    8.0K	lemmy-ui
    5.2G	pictrs
    2.8G	postgres
    

    I’m subscribed to around 50 communities for about 2 months.

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      1 year ago

      Huh. That’s surprisingly light.

      I self-host my own Mastodon server and relay about 50 hashtags (no full servers). Even with media getting flushed every 3 days, it still hovers around 20GB.

      I’m probably gonna do it now, because of course I will.