To the newcomers to the fediverse. Don’t let the last few days or even the next few be your only impression on this. When we all came over from twitter it was a shit show and nothing worked right because everything was overwhelmed. Give it a few days. It’ll get better.
even if it doesn’t get better in the coming days, i have hope that it will get better steadily over time. the fact that recent events have given the concept of federation more publicity is a step in the right direction. when the social media giants inevitably screw over their users again in the future, more people will know where to look for better alternatives.
Does this momentary overload impact the feed across instances? I was testing it today and was getting different feeds on different instances, even though I had the same settings (‘all’, active, hot, new comments, etc.). I had the impression that the ‘all’ feed would be the same in every instance, considering that they are federating somewhat the same instances.
It can. If another instance is having issues you might have trouble accessing the content on their server.
