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Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

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[–] jason@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Do the comments ever load reliably? For me that would be a dealbreaker...

[–] jcb2016@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You gotta remember, The blackout brought us refugees I don't think lemmy planned for this. I think the updates that are coming will address all of this. Reddit is decades old. Lemmy is new to all of us. We just gotta wait and eventually it will become second nature and we will be as good as Reddit

[–] jason@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh totally. It wasn’t a knock at the software at all. In fact. I’m surprised by how well this works as a drop-in replacement for Reddit for me and both Lemmy and Kbin are solid.

The reason I asked was that, with my single-user Mastodon instance, likes/boosts and comments are nearly always incomplete on my server just because of the way federation works. I was just wondering if that was something smaller instances had to deal with in perpetuity or if it was just a one-off issue that happened at the start.

The OP commented below saying that comments appeared to be loading instantaneously after that initial hiccup.

[–] jcb2016@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Cool. Hope you get it resolved

[–] idle@158436977.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

As far as I can tell yes. Once the federation catches up the backlog, comments and posts seem to be near instantaneous.

[–] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 1 points 1 year ago

They do seem to. I'm on my own instance. Sometimes it seems a bit funky though it usually seems to be when I've just subscribed.