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How to Choose a Lemmy Instance Based on Latency and Least Blocked Users? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by Veritas@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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Hi everyone, I'm having trouble finding a Lemmy instance that works well for me. The main instance I use is down, and most others are too slow. I'm wondering if there's a way to choose an instance based on latency and the least blocked users. I found two relevant issues on the awesome-lemmy-instances GitHub page: issue #12 about choosing an instance based on latency and issue #17 about choosing an instance with the least blocked users. However, I'm not sure how to implement these into the main script to generate a readme with a few recommended instances. Does anyone have any advice or tips on how to choose a Lemmy instance based on these criteria? Thanks in advance for your help!

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[โ€“] Grouchy@lemmy.grouchysysadmin.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you considered hosting your own instance instead? Seems like that would solve the issue.

[โ€“] dandroid@dandroid.app 3 points 1 year ago

That's what I do. I'm basically immune to any defederation drama, as I can choose who to federate or defederate with myself, and I'm immune to any downtime (other than the time I accidentally nuked my MBR the morning before I left on an all-day trip and couldn't access my instance all day because of it, but let's not talk about that).