This sends me on a rabbithole to discover new top level domains (.org .com .world) are added in rounds. The last one was in 2012. The next is NEXT YEAR.
Would be amazing if we could get .lemmy but it would be hella expensive. $185k for application and 25k annually to keep it. Not sure if we can crowdsource such.
Blackjackandhookers.online and .community are still available though.
I'm pretty sure .world being slow is a web frontend problem. It often takes forever to load in my browser, but the same content loads quickly in the Voyager Android app.
I should probably try the several alternative web UIs they have available to see if they're faster than the default one, but I can't be bothered to walk over to my desktop PC right now.
It can't be the backend because it's got to query the same data whether it's feeding the web UI or Voyager, so that wouldn't explain the vast loading time differences between them. If the backend were slow they would both be slow, but Voyager's load times are great.
I went and found Yiffit originally because the more knowledgeable Lemmy gurus pointed out that everyone using 1 instance would bog things down. Makes sense, you know? Harder to serve everyone, especially if this whole thing is just up because of hobbyists and volunteers and not big mega corps with limitless funding, through 1 channel. Where big sites like Reddit split across multiple servers behind the scenes, Lemmy just allows you to manually control what servers you're using via the instance you're on. I'm big on choice, so this is hella rad IMO.
Because of the fediverse partial mesh, leading to incomplete timeline view, or inconsistency depending the instance you’re on.
People tend to flock on primary, massive instances because they are well know of course, but also because this is where you have the most complete view, and from there your posts reaches many other instances.