A few Lemmy.world users have been complaining that the website is slow for them, what is your experience?

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Most recent examples, seems like Americans users are mostly impacted.

the site (or at least lemmy.world) is sooo slooow. Basic functions like loading images take me back to the dial-up era of “click the image then do something else while it loads,” which is downright ridiculous in the 2020s. Again I’ve stuck with it because I want to support the fediverse, but 99% of users won’t.

https://lemmy.world/comment/14645438

Additional example

It also doesn’t help that it’s slow as fuck on desktop compared to the others I tried.

Is lemm.ee much faster than lemmy.world for you?

Yes, MUCH. Sh.itjust.works is much faster as well. I don’t know if it’s because LW is still on 0.19.3 or what, but it’s a very significant difference.

https://lemm.ee/post/53056454/17657107

3rd comment below

So slow unfortunately

https://lemmy.world/comment/14661546

Well, it took me 2 page load attempts and 60 solid seconds to get as far as being able to leave this comment, so… Yeah, sometimes it is slow as dirt.

https://lemmy.world/comment/14676091

Images have been fine for me, I’ve given up on videos

https://lemmy.world/comment/14676052

Note: if this post seems familiar, it's because it was originally posted on [email protected] . It has since then been removed as a "support question". Not sure why asking people if they've been impacted about the instance that hosts 30% of the whole Lemmy userbase is a support question, but I'll revisit that tomorrow.

[shifty@leminal.space]

I can't post comments for the last couple days.

Edit: looks like it was related to VPN use and some flagging of my session/connection, maybe cloudflare on lemmy.world

https://lemmy.world/post/24659852

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Interesting, so this is your first comment in a few days?

[dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world]

Well, it took me 2 page load attempts and 60 solid seconds to get as far as being able to leave this comment, so... Yeah, sometimes it is slow as dirt.

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Thank your for chiming in. If you are located in the US, have you considered

• https://discuss.online/ for an instance that defederates lemmygrad and hexbear, similar to what Lemmy.world does
• https://lemmy.today/ for an instance that does not defederate anyone (their blocklist is literally empty)

[shifty@leminal.space]

From my lemmy.world account. I cant post comments from that account at all.

Edit: looks like it was related to VPN use and some flagging of my session/connection, maybe cloudflare on lemmy.world

https://lemmy.world/post/24659852

[aaaa@lemmy.world]

Zero issues, everything works exactly as I expect

Not to say no issues exist, but I have encountered none, and that is data

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Europe or North America?

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Have you been banned? Do you see anything preventing you from commenting, or is it just slow?

[shifty@leminal.space]

When I click to post the comment, I get a loading circle gif that just spins forever. Tried waiting it out for a few minutes but nothing happens.

And to my knowledge lemmy doesnt do shadow bans so I would at keast know if I had been banned there.

Edit: previously I cleared cache, tried different browsers and devices, logged out and in again, nothing worked. I also just tested and I can't create posts from lemmy.world account either.

Edit2: looks like it was related to VPN use and some flagging of my session/connection, maybe cloudflare on lemmy.world

https://lemmy.world/post/24659852

[aaaa@lemmy.world]

North America. Is there a pattern of difference?

[libertylizard@slrpnk.net]

What about spam instances? Or is there another way that’s handled?

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

https://gui.fediseer.com/ ?

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

LW uses Hetzner, a German hosting company. The majority of people having issues seem to be from NA, which makes sense due to the further distance.

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

That could indeed be the VPN use.

You could maybe consider

• https://discuss.online/ for an instance based in the USA that defederates lemmygrad and hexbear, similar to what Lemmy.world does
• https://sopuli.xyz/ for an instance based in Europe that also defederates lemmygrad and hexbear
• https://lemmy.today/ for an instance based in the USA that does not defederate anyone (their blocklist is literally empty)
• https://lemm.ee/ for an instance based in Europe that has a very short defederation list (like 4 entries: https://lemm.ee/instances)

[alexisfr@jlai.lu]

I did notice some slowdown fetching new posts last week in the all page from my instance, but locally it was fine.

Its seems to have gotten better since 2 or 3 days ago.

[torfdot0@lemmy.world]

I wonder if it has something to do with the default Lemmy front end. I don’t have any slowness using Voyager on mobile or m.lemmy.world on desktop