I noticed that for a week or so now the community has been much smaller tham it used to be. I’m seeing an almost 90% decrease in posts, comments, and votes. Did something get defederated or did a big community go down? Lemmy stats show that Lemmy average user count is still about the same.
I don’t know if it’s directly linked, but small instances are not getting easy entry to the lemmy fediverse. Let me explain succinctly.
I have a somewhat beefy PC with RAM and storage space, it only serves lemmy.mindoki.com over a 1Gb down, 700Mb up link.
When I surf the lemmyverse it should be quick as a nimble, right? Not sloggish like pouring molten asphalt, if any asphalt there is…
Trouble is that I’m the sole user, so if I don’t run around everywhere things work quite badly if at all. Unread messages (you have 4 new messages!) takes 30 seconds to get for example or more. Since a 5-6 days internet cutoff (double unluck hardware side from my ISP) all servers my server exchanged with just laid me off and it feels like I’m blocked since then. I go to say artshare through my server, I get the posts but they all have only the base 1 up vote, few comments.
I’d love helping out more, but if you have to have hundreds of users for your server to just function, well, it just doesn’t make sense to have a small server.
What’s your thoughts?
It’s a valid point. You should probably repost this on !lemmy@lemmy.ml as it would be more visible