Title says it all!? I’m a reddit refuge and picked this instance because it’s A) Canadian (I’m in MN, so consider myself an honorary Canadian), and B) The clean energy thing.
Applied to Beehaw but never heard back. Dittos on Lemmy.ML!
So hoping this is going to be a great “home” away from Reddit for the foreseeable future.
Cheers, and well done on the instance, admins!
I have no way to prove this story since I burned my reddit account, but I might as well share: when I was checking out lemmy for the first time I got both a beehaw and a lemmy.ml account(both were a pain to wet up) and both had serious reliability issues(this was right after the API announcement). I was looking on reddit to try and find more info about other instances then I found a comment chain with a couple of guys, one said he had a server, the other said he had the domain itjust.works and was looking for a subdomain. I though about it for a moment, and in a moment of sheer smartassery I suggested sh.itjust.works. not long after I saw in the comment chain that they went with my suggestion and put the server up lmao. At that point I knew they were chill, so I made an account on here as soon as I saw that it had gone up, and it’s been rock solid ever since.
Edit: as @TheDude and others have pointed out, this happened here on the lemmy.ml instance, not reddit. It seems my memory is at fault lmao. I’m going to keep the rest of this comment unedited because its a good story anyways, but yea, I was wrong about where it happened. I’m glad I was wrong tho since i t means I still have that account, lol.
Not to throw you under the bus @this@sh.itjust.works but that’s not exactly how I recall it going down. Everything in your story is accurate with the exception of where the conversation happened. It happened on a Lemmy instance!. The conversation started on the lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead post. If you are indeed the same user who recommended the name you definitely get a token of recognition for coming up with it!
Thank you for your service o7
this
No, please, not here.
I’ll chime in as a newly minted mod…. Well implemented enterprise infrastructure supported by a team of experienced infrastructure guys, mods, techies, etc.
It handles all the loads.
It handles all the loads.
I had an ex like that. It’s less impressive when it’s unexpected
I cannot have such smut in my feed, provide me with her username so I can block her
giggity
Comments like this make me feel right at home.
Agreed. This server is just great quality. Makes me happy to be here. That + the name = magic.
Old reddit, how I’ve missed thee. I think I love Lemmy now. Can I join your memology 101 class?
The spirit is definitely here. I even hit ‘Top Blocked Users’ in the Top 10 of our security suite (out of globally 10,000 users) due to federating some porno feeds. I was like, 'Yo! I don’t even know lemmy.world, must have been some federation in my feed I didn’t even see. ’
Already registered somewhere else, but just had to join this one for the cool domain name.
Lmao love the username
The name and the fact that it does just work. I registered and immediately had an account unlike some other instances.
Shit just works
Sh… 🤫 It just works!
It Just Works!
Thanks for hosting this instance. Apart from the great name and the chill environment, this is the first instance that let me sign in without issues or infinitely spinning buttons. Also it looks like this one has better server capacity compared to other instances!
I was mainly a lurker in reddit, but will try to be more active here.
I had the same experience. I almost didn’t make it onto the lemmyverse - I tried lemmy.ml and beehaw, didn’t get let in / tried to log in too soon after I applied, then forgot about it.
Any site with an application process is going to turn away a lot of people.
Hard agree, I started with beehaw, saw that it has an application process, and I didn’t even bother.
The fact that they defederated from this instance says a lot about them too.
The fact that they defederated from this instance says a lot about them too.
Exactly. I’ve got an account there, but i view it as basically useless now.
They’re way too uptight about a lot of shit to be an open forum of discussion.
So far the atmosphere here seems far more cooperative and optimistic… like a certain other place circa 2008.
I’m liking it, it’s a breath of fresh air and I’d forgotten that smell.
@TheDude@sh.itjust.works - Keep commercial interests / astroturfing etc. off this place like our lives depend on it!
I also joined cause of the domain name. Silly just like the early 2000s internet. The admin and everyone on here seems really laid-back and cool.
Best instance name so far, hands down. I’m a sucker for clever names.
“this instance” :) I see you’re on sh.itjust.works. I’m currently posting from fedia.io. Theoretically all the “fediverse” instances should interact with one another.
It’s that TheDude abides, man.
I chose this one because it had open registrations. lemmy.world and .ml were my first choices simply due to size.
As a Skyrim fanatic I’ve got a Pavlovian attraction to any joke on the theme of “It just works.” Then, as a PC tinkerer, reading this confirmed that this instance is probably a good fit. Happy with the vibe so far!
Lemmy.ml bans you for criticizing the ccp and personally don’t like beehaw because admins decided to make subs and run them.
i didn’t realize that would be an issue for people. I’ve seen these instances more like the PHPBB forums from the days before the big services took over.
I thought the idea with lemmy was that the instances would tend to be grouped by topic/area so it makes sense that the people running a tech instance would also be involved in creating/running the tech communities on that instance. Some are more purpose-built than others tho.
mine is purpose built and I simply created the communities to match the flair we were using. Does seem like all the instances may need to make more docs on hows and whys of what they are and thier goals.
mine is pretty obv, big ol INTEGRATED AI at the top and pictures of robots!
even back then though, everyone had a shitpost lounge.
I don’t know if that’s really required, there will probably be a mix of specialized and general servers when things settle down which is probably fine. And after the feature for moving communities is done, then they could be grouped or redistributed.
Salamander did the same as you https://mander.xyz/u/Sal and is listed as a mod on nearly all the communities. But I don’t really know if “pre-making” a bunch of communities is great for growth cuz when I started here, I found a bunch of machine learning ones but they all seemed dead. Like I’ve been posting stuff in the community I started just so there’s something there and people can get a feel for what it’s about.
For me I am not as-concerned about growth, the sub started like the old reddit subs, as a link list I was sharing as part of my own research into the topic. If we had tags or flair I would prefer it frankly.
My team and I use the list and wanted to share. Moving off reddit gave me excuse to take control of more of my internet presence and I have gobs of cheap compute so chill instances! Would be great if others wanted to participate but even on reddit it was mainly a quiet link list with a couple hundred subs.
Have to say I’m really enjoying the speed of an instance fronted with cloudflare.
True, it’s feasible to be an active mod when the communities are small but you’d pretty quickly need to bring in other mods if they start growing too big. It’s certainly nice to have smaller communities around for some topics but for some to function well, they do kind of need a certain amount of active users. I know there’s some concern about too few servers that have all the large communities as well.
I think as more people are intrested in the project, more features will get added eventually.
? I though cloudflare disabled domain fronting?
Also here after getting impatient with beehaw and hearing… questionable things about .ml. Was a lurker on reddit but trying to be active here. Thanks for hosting, admins!
What questionable things?
Probably that the admins of that instance are tankies who support the CCP and Russia.
Tankies don’t support Russia. If you’re going to use the term as an insult, at least use it right.
If true then its ironic that they are trying to run a federated free speech platfomr
