This site is currently struggling to handle the amount of new users. I have already upgraded the server, but it will go down regardless if half of Reddit tries to join.
However Lemmy is federated software, meaning you can interact seamlessly with communities on other instances like beehaw.org or lemmy.one. The documentation explains in more detail how this works. Use the instance list to find one where you can register. Then use the Community Browser to find interesting communities. Paste the community url into the search field to follow it.
You can help other Reddit refugees by inviting them to the same Lemmy instance where you joined. This way we can spread the load across many different servers. And users with similar interests will end up together on the same instances. Others on the same instance can also automatically see posts from all the communities that you follow.
Edit: If you moderate a large subreddit, do not link your users directly to lemmy.ml in your announcements. That way the server will only go down sooner.
Would be really nice if on the instance page you could have some extra information admins could fill in like max capacity and such, think that people would be more inclined to choose other instances if they could see how close the instance is to the approximate member limit
I am trying to start my own instance, but this documentation is broken.
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/from_scratch.html
I have gone through it three times now.
The daemon on Ubuntu won't start because of permission issues.
thread 'main' panicked at 'Failed to load settings file: LemmyError { message: None, inner: No such file or directory (os error 2), context: "SpanTrace" }', /home/ubuntu/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/lemmy_utils-0.17.3/src/settings/mod.rs:18:33
Because of how rust/cargo installs their "registry"
Fix the docs and I will start another instance ASAP.
Search for lemmy_support and it should turn up (if you're an lemmy.ml)