this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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For any new UK users to Lemmy, consider making an account over at Feddit.uk. It’s an growing instance with a specific community focus on all things UK!

I’m not a admin of that instance, but made my own account after Lemmy.ml became too slow to use and the difference is night and day, at the time of writing.

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[–] rubikfrog 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just went straight to Feddit.UK after reading that it was best to choose small, but not too small instances. And yeah, it's been great. The only issue I've found is that joining communities from other instances can be slow - I assume that if you're the first subscribers on your instance it has to do some fetching of data. Yesterday it took me 10-15 minutes to join one community.

[–] Senseibu 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I found a PSA post from Lemmy devs earlier on that I brought to Tom’s attention, it will hopefully address this issue.

[–] rubikfrog 2 points 1 year ago

Ah cool. Thanks. Yeah, I saw something about worker threads or something and wondered if that was a cause.

[–] HiDefMusic 6 points 1 year ago

Just created an account here after using lemmy.world for several hours yesterday. Definitely seems a bit quicker using this instance, thanks!

[–] edent@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] rubikfrog 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Clicking on these causes Jerboa to crap out for me. But as someone else pointed out if I click on community links via another users profile it takes me to the community where I can subscribe, even if it's in another instance.

[–] JadedIdealist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

It looks to me like it isn't in the list at the federation info maybe that's why?

[–] doctorfinlay 4 points 1 year ago

Really happy I picked Feddit.uk :)

[–] planetgong 3 points 1 year ago

Joined up and it seems to be working great so far.

[–] sideone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good info, thanks

EDIT: wow, so much quicker to post

[–] Vinnyboiler 2 points 1 year ago

I joined a few days ago and can reccomend creating an account there. As Lemmy grows, the need for more instances grows as well.