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Spread Out: How To Speed Up Lemmy (lemmy.fediverse.observer)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by miles@discuss.online to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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There are many lemmy instances in the world, but currently most people are using lemmy.world. This is why everything has gotten so slow.

You don't have to delete your lemmy.world account, but check out https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map it's a geo-based map of lemmy instances -- explore stuff nearest you, pick one, sign up, search , subscribe and begin interacting with your favorite communities. It's easy, free and it will be faster. Try it!

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[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Community discovery on Lemmy so far feels incredibly difficult. Even browsing "all" I feel I get the same 10-15 communities in rotation.

How am I supposed to find the medium-sized communities about specific subjects that don't end up on "all?"

[–] Spzi@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How am I supposed to find the medium-sized communities about specific subjects that don’t end up on “all?”

Search by keyword:

Here's a curated directory: https://sub.rehab/

You can also checkout

  • /c/findacommunity@lemmy.ml
  • /c/communitypromo@lemmy.ca
[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh this is great, thank you!

[–] gentoo_biscuit@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago

Ooh definitely saving this. Thanks for the help