Is there a way to migrate my account to a new server?
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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Thanks! Donated 5$ - I encourage others to do the same.
Please please excuse me for my ignorance but does it matter if you sign up on multiple servers? I have very little experience in any of this so I'm not entirely sure if that's a no go or whatever.
Thank you for your hard work! Although I kinda foresee for the future if Lemmy really would become the new "reddit" with such servers and millions of users, wouldn't that also rise the server costs and ultimately make the hosts dependent on asking money for it, maybe by a paywall or by ads? I think to make this community really be "free" without any host responsible for spending a huge amount of money for servers, the best solution would be to make the actual "servers" be a p2p cluster. Unfortunately I'm not quite sure how to realize that without losing a huge fraction of the model if a lot of nodes (i.e., the actual users) are offline. Sorry, I'm just brainstorming.
I would love a social network powered by the users that are using it. Maybe also running something like serverless functions on the client devices.
You might want to check the Earthstar project: https://earthstar-project.org/ They are working on that. Right now, it's super early; they are building the foundations. Peer-to-peer is unfortunately much more difficult to code then servers, because less people have built the building-blocks required, and because mobile phones are actively making it hard to run peer-to-peer apps.
that's excellent! Thank you and team for all the hard work.
ive noticed already that it is much faster and responsive now it must be this new server
Congrats! I was hoping that's what was going on!!❤️
Gotta say it's been a smoother experience using it in the last couple hours. Thanks!
hey 👋 do you have some Grafana dashboard where we can check user increase?
Given the no. of posts on this instance I guess it has quite a large user base and I’m really surprised how it manages to run on that amount of resources 😄
Thanks for your work on this site. It feels very promising and a great place to migrate to. Reddit is about to hit their digg/myspace moment.
I tried to run my own instance but ran into errors. Gonna try again some other time.
You're holding the gates of freedom open, my friend
Cool. Which provider, if you want to share?
Ovh
You feel safe that they won't take a dim look on piracy then?
No they dont seem to care at all.
very interesting. Thanks for letting me know.
This sounds wonderful!
Noticeably faster! Thank you.
Sexy
Fantastic to see and the improvements are already being felt and very obvious.
Thank you!
@nutomic thanks, but I'm still getting 502 bad gateway
Noice. Now it is fast!
new users should still prefer to signup on other instances.
Add an instance migration feature, and ~~throw out~~ kindly suggest it to some users when the server gets overloaded... (/jk... or not)