General Discussion

Lemmy.ml is one of the biggest instances so if you're looking for something that performs more reliably maybe avoid the bigger ones (lemmy.ml, beehaw, lemmy.world, etc.) and find one with a smaller user base. This are likely to be "bumpy" for a while as admins and devs figure stuff out and resolve problems.

I'm on sh.itjust.works which has definitely been getting bigger and has had occasional slowness. I mostly just picked it because I thought the name was funny and they're powered by renewable energy, but with the federated nature of Lemmy your account could be on any federated Lemmy and you could use all the others from there.

AFAIK this server has had 100% uptime (but I'm not the hoster so I can't say for certain. We definitely never encountered any major downtime or crash.) There are hourly restarts to fix the image service, maybe that's what you're referring to? Those only last a few moments and other instances, like lemmy.world, do it too. (In fact they do it at every 30 minutes, which we've considered doing too)

According to Lemmy Explorer this server has 100% uptime, if you are still having problems with this specific instance, consider switching to a somewhat more popular instance.

Guess I should have been more specific, I thought this was just a thread for lemmy.fmhy.ml "instance" An instance is just another word for a fediverse server correct? This particular instance has been down for hours at a time within the past few days. I guess it doesn't really matter so much which instance I hop on though? That's part of the point? I just need to me more quick to switch instances in my app if having difficulty connecting.