I agree. But one disadvantage of really tiny instances is the lack of confidence I have that the admins stay on top of keeping those instances up to date with the latest version of Lemmy. The older the version, the more the likelihood of bugs, performance issues, and potential security vulnerabilities.
Hopefully the Lemmy devs get motivated by this new influx of users that they start to incorporate features that extend the vision of decentralization where user accounts could be migrated to another instance without losing anything. That would mean whenever an instance gets hit with too much load, just switch it out with one that has less load on it and you are good to go ahead with your day.
@pyarra@vlemmy.net has done a really great job of keeping VLemmy up to date; I have faith they will continue to do so. The ability to switch instances is a tricky feature and is something the developers are working on, but from what I’ve heard it’s challenging to know exactly how to handle it.
It would be awesome if we have seamless integration between the lemmy instances, especially with data integrity and transfers from one instance to the other. I have faith that Lemmy will grow and have these advanced features… the devs are quite capable, we just have to be patient and support however we can.
I agree. But one disadvantage of really tiny instances is the lack of confidence I have that the admins stay on top of keeping those instances up to date with the latest version of Lemmy. The older the version, the more the likelihood of bugs, performance issues, and potential security vulnerabilities.
Hopefully the Lemmy devs get motivated by this new influx of users that they start to incorporate features that extend the vision of decentralization where user accounts could be migrated to another instance without losing anything. That would mean whenever an instance gets hit with too much load, just switch it out with one that has less load on it and you are good to go ahead with your day.
@pyarra@vlemmy.net has done a really great job of keeping VLemmy up to date; I have faith they will continue to do so. The ability to switch instances is a tricky feature and is something the developers are working on, but from what I’ve heard it’s challenging to know exactly how to handle it.
It would be awesome if we have seamless integration between the lemmy instances, especially with data integrity and transfers from one instance to the other. I have faith that Lemmy will grow and have these advanced features… the devs are quite capable, we just have to be patient and support however we can.