I’ve mostly been a .world user, but have this alt account on .ca as a backup. I logged into it to make sure I didn’t have anything in my inbox, and noticed that everything loads so much faster. In both cases I’m using the browser interface from my tablet, sorting by all. On .world, there’s a pause before the text comes up, then the thumbnails and graphics slowly populate. On .ca, it all pretty much loads instantly.
Is it just the number of users being a lot bigger? More community activity? Hardware differences? Running different software versions? A combination of these? I’m curious.
I recently checked the uptime of several large Lemmy instances and found out that the latency of Lemmy.world was roughly 500ms while the latency of other instances was about 100ms. I suspect this is due higher server load. The daily active user count of Lemmy.world is substantially higher than the other top instances.
EDIT: The numbers
The daily active users (somewhat outdated):
lemmy.world response times
beehaw.org response times
That would make sense, ty.