One thing I’m not clear about is the impact my home instance has on me. I joined lemmy.world and am currently using the connect for lemmy app. I know when I sort by Local it will only show me posts from lemmy.world, but beyond that are there any things to keep in mind?
I have read that lemmy.world has been hit by DDoS attacks but I’ve never had any problem using connect for Lemmy during those times as far as I know.
The only way it matters is if/when it is defederated by/from other instances.
That being said, some may or may not be more reliable than others, but that’s a separate issue
That’s not the only way. Smaller instances will have very different All feeds because All is just an aggregate of your Instance-mates.
If it goes down you can’t get on your regular account, but I made a backup account on another server for when that happens.
A backup account like a second account? Or does your main account back up to the other one?
Like just a second account, I can’t be bothered to do anything fancy.
I don’t know, but I keep trying to comment on posts federated from other instances and half the time I get some obscure error and it fails, and it’s fucking irritating.
Sometimes syncing of comments/posts in communities between instances can be delayed or missing. I noticed some communities on Lemmy.world would be missing posts if I view them from my Lemmy.ca account.
However, these issues aren’t as prevalent for me as they were a month ago. I imagine it’s been better after the upgrades.
