Hi from Edinburgh - I never actually used (or even knew about) /r/casualUK, but new to Lemmy and looking to add so my subscriptions while I find my feet!

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TeaHands 6 points 3 years ago

Oh you were absolutely missing out! Best thing about Reddit Lemmy

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sanguinepar 4 points 3 years ago

Ha ha, fair enough, well I'm glad I'm here now then.

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sprocket 5 points 3 years ago

Hello fellow reddit refugees!

Glad to see another casualuk on here, was my favourite place before reddit shot itself in the foot.

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sheinar 5 points 3 years ago

Hello from North Wales. Glad to find a good UK-specific community!

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crucible 4 points 3 years ago

Hi! Also from North Wales, slowly figuring this all out

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sideone 2 points 3 years ago

Welcome and shamai!

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freshhotbiscuits 4 points 3 years ago

Getting in early to prove my dedication

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Two9A 4 points 3 years ago

Oh hey, it's a casUK.

Are we thinking of using the same timetable for daily posts, or mixing it up? I do very much enjoy Thursday Rants, and I'm not the only one, I'm sure.

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TeaHands 5 points 3 years ago

I'm down to rant all day everyday tbh

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TheFriendless 4 points 3 years ago

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ericjmorey 4 points 3 years ago

I'll have you know that I'm not a UK people, but I would appreciate being welcomed nonetheless.

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sideone 3 points 3 years ago

Of course, welcome!

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meh_whatever 4 points 3 years ago

waves Not from the UK but I’m a Reddit refugee and occasionally lurked the sub. Greetings from Ohio!

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sideone 4 points 3 years ago

Hello there!

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myk 3 points 3 years ago

Got here in the end, thanks for your help! (xopranaut on Reddit)

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TeaHands 4 points 3 years ago

One of us! One of us!

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sideone 3 points 3 years ago

Awesome, welcome!

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Twig 3 points 3 years ago

Just need a /r/AskUK and I think we're sorted UK-wise!

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TeaHands 3 points 3 years ago

Oh well that's good timing, just signed up. Hi all!

Fyi there's also https://lemmy.ml/c/chilluk to keep an eye on.

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sideone 2 points 3 years ago

Greetings! Thanks for the other link too

EDIT: I can't see any comments when looking from lemmy.world, but can if I go to lemmy.ml - does that mean federation is slow or not working?

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TeaHands 2 points 3 years ago

I'm not any kind of expert (got to grips with Mastodon a while ago but new to Lemmy) however I had some similar problems on my other account and it was fixed by making sure my account settings had "undetermined" selected under languages as well as english.

Could be something else in your case (not sure, I can see comments ok when I follow my link) but it's worth a try.

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chaosppe 3 points 3 years ago

Ah yes (sips tea) cannot help, but begin the collonasation.

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Aux 3 points 3 years ago

Hello, everyone!

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sideone 1 point 3 years ago

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Dasnap 3 points 3 years ago

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Risk 2 points 3 years ago

I'm here still trying to figure out how instances and communities differ.

I signed up on lemmy.world, which is the hosting instance for my account, right? And then I'm posting this in a thread in the CasualUK community.

But is this community just on lemmy.world, or across all instances?

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sideone 3 points 3 years ago

I'm working it out too.

Lemmy.world is an instance - a server that hosts your account and any data.

UKCasual is a community, essentially a subreddit. Its stored solely on the Lemmy.world server

Whilst this community is stored on lemmy.world, if you're logged into another instance you can still see and interact with the UKCasual community, but data remains on lemmy.world

I'm not sure if there's a sync delay between instances etc

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Risk 3 points 3 years ago

Okay. So if lemmy.world goes down then presumably all the communities it hosts also go down? This seems to present a bit of a logistical problem for community longevity. For example, a small instance that creates a popular community across all of the fediverse then has to try and support a large amount of traffic with possibly little local income/support?

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TeaHands 4 points 3 years ago

I think this is why lemmy.ml has been asking people to stop signing up there. Centralising everything goes against the point of the Fediverse but also ends up costing the people running the instance a lot of money. It's best for everyone if we all spread out a bit.

My other account is on Beehaw.org and they're pretty transparent about what it's costing them and how many donations they've had, it's definitely interesting https://beehaw.org/post/416496

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sideone 1 point 3 years ago

Is it beneficial to have accounts across multiple instances?

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sunspider 3 points 3 years ago

I think your posts and comments are stored on your own instance - lemmy.world for example - and then that instance uses the ActivityPub protocol to tell the community you interacted with that you did it.

From there I'm not sure exactly. I think the primary source of truth for your activity is still your home server, but the server hosting the community still at least caches the data as well, meaning a popular community might still overload it.

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sideone 2 points 3 years ago

Yes, as far as I understand that is an issue. I guess more popular instances may request donations to increase resources in future? I believe that Lemmy is super lightweight so shouldn't need much in the way of server power etc

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ruud 4 points 3 years ago

For now this is peanuts. If it might grow a lot, I can use some of the mastodon.world donations or setup a new Patreon.

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kev 1 point 3 years ago

What I think is needed is a way to migrate communities and users between servers and something like the Mastodon Server Covenant so people would have time to migrate if a server decided it was going away.

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theory 2 points 3 years ago

Worth asking how long the server is likely to be up, ive been trying to ask on all the small servers ive signed up on

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mdwhite999 2 points 3 years ago

It also seems to create multiple of the same communities. Also depending on what instance you are signed up with you can't access posts from certain other instances

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Risk 3 points 3 years ago

Only if your instance is banned by another.

Duplicate communities will exist for a while, but the same thing happens on reddit.

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TeaHands 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah lemmy.world is the instance your account is on, and it's the one this community is on. But you can basically join and interact with communities on any instance.

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blackstrat 2 points 3 years ago

I'm here. Took a few days as I stood up my own friendica instance first off and it took me a while to realize it doesn't play that well with Lemmy. So I've started my own Lemmy instance now, which was 300% harder than it should have been as the devs aren't keeping the documentation up to date with the config files.

Now that I've used the fediverse it's not as weird as it sounds. But the learning curve is steep and I'm only here thanks to perseverance.

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Girlontheinterweb 1 point 3 years ago

The community is cross platform as I’m signed in via beehaw with a nice new name that has no connection to my old Reddit one

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rarkgrames 2 points 3 years ago

Hi, another reddit refugee here. Waves from London I promise not to be a dick.

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sideone 1 point 3 years ago