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!
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!
I replied to this comment with my alt and edited my original comment in that conversation but I don't think lemmy.ml is working/federating correctly or something, oh well fake internet points aren't that big a deal, I'm just happy to have helped, it makes this server feel more sentimental to me.
Hey look at that, its working! Now you can see I am @this@sh.itjust.works
this
this
That's how I found out about this, I remember that post. I read it on my Lemmy.ml amount and came here almost immediately
Haha i saw that! But was that really on Reddit? Or was it on Lemmy, don't remember ...
Hahaha this is great
It handles all the loads.
I had an ex like that. It's less impressive when it's unexpected
giggity
I cannot have such smut in my feed, provide me with her username so I can block her
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. '
Yeah, the name is what made me register too.
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.
It has a funny name of course!
Been here since almost the first day the server opened up: what makes this place different is our ruleset, admin and users.
Ruleset: Very simple and basic. @TheDude doesn't want to over-moderate, as far as I can tell. No need to tone-police or clamp down on what people can/can't say, as long as it's respectful. I really like that approach.
The admin: From his posts and the sheer rock-solid stability of this server and laid-back attitude, the dude abides. I know I'm not the only one who joined because of this post. Networking experts, server admins, devops guys, if they're anything like me, they look at that and think "Yup, this is where I wanna be".
Users: Early days yet, but so far the people here have been very laid-back, very nice, and helpful. Been trying to get all the newbies situated myself whenever I spot questions I can answer :) I'm hoping we can maintain this culture going forward.
As a dev, I joined a day before that post with much less criterion, then saw that post and felt very satisfied as you say. And they haven't let me down with the consistent updates and a very well oiled system that has handled massive growth with minimal side effects.
I also liked seeing that the networking comm was one of the early ones here. In general the local community list from a few days ago left me with a good vibe.
This is the first instance that immediately accepted me when I tried to register. I tried other auto accept instances but my applications literally wouldn’t get through and I’d be stuck on the application page. Anyway, so far I find this site really neat and the loading speed is the best I’ve tried. Thank you for setting up this instance, admins. Hope the Fediverse grows.
Since you can subscribe to stuff even from other "instances"? Does it really matter which one you sign up on?
It's not like I'm Communist or Fascist so the major players should probably be in contact with each other anyways.
Well, yes and no. For instance (no pun intended), the site for your home instance is a page you’re going to be landing on a lot, so you’d want one which loads smoothly and reliably for you, and this often depends on your instance’s server infrastructure. Some larger instances are already being overloaded. Another concern is probably stability and longevity, since the fate of your account is tied to the instance that hosts it, so you’d have to choose one you trust. And the last one is moderation: you don’t want to join an instance where the admin is known for being shady and randomly banning people or blocking lots of instances. That being said, so long you choose a reliable instance it doesn’t matter too much which one it is.
You can register your username, if you wanted to keep it, on another server as a backup as well
Instances can de-federate each other so you can't see communities. Beehaw just de-federated us due to the large influx of users containing some people trolling their communities. The moderation tools are not great right now and so rather than dealing with the influx of trolls they de-federated this instance.
So you can't see Beehaw communities and their users cannot see your posts if you post on another instance's community.
This lets instances decide who they want to associate with and is a good thing for the long-term health of social media. You don't want to be a part of instances that associate with terrorist instances or other shady things, de-federation is the tool to keep that from happening.
In general, any instance is as good as any other but as time goes on there may be a few different 'islands' of instances that are functionally separate from each other and you'll either choose one or use multiple accounts to swap between them.
They released an update yesterday that they reached out to speak with the sh.itjust.works admin team and they're confident that they will be able to re-federate with us going forward once they're able to get some more moderation tools to handle the larger volume.
They didn't provide a timeline however. It's up to you if you want to wait for re-federation or make another account on Beehaw.
Here's the post: https://sh.itjust.works/post/147756
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!
Test posting with Jerboa. Please ignore this comment.
Liked and subscribed, whatever Jerboa is
test posts // comments : here's the place :
!anything or tests@lemmy.world
``
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!
I liked the domain. It makes me smile.
Easy to remember url, haven’t had a single issue with acces or content. Not Canadian but I appreciate the general vibe of the people from the country that I’ve interacted and worked with. Great experience so far!
Shit just works
Sh... 🤫 It just works!
I'm not a user on this instance, but from what I can tell, shit just kinda works over here.
I recently switched from lemmy.ml to here. It just seems to be snappy and always up when I use the site. Lemmy.ml, on the other hand, is down frequently due to the high traffic and otherwise slow to load for me.
This instance does what it says on the tin. Shit just works over here.
After 30 minutes of floundering about, I think I'm finally starting to get how lemmy works. I really hope this takes off so here I am contributing to the noise :D
The more the merrier. Content production and interaction makes a community grow and thrive! Welcome, and best wishes
Do you know how to subscribe to other communities from different instances?
I want to sub to the selfhosted community in another instance but not sure how to.
Edit: I figured it out, when viewing the list of communities, you have to select the option that says "all" instead of the "local" option.
I'm on day... 3. I just signed up for a couple more instances to try to find my y 'home'... This place seems chill..
Probably that the admins of that instance are tankies who support the CCP and Russia.
A lot of people who are called talkies supoort Russia but if you consider talkies as "authoritarian communist who romanticized Lenin and Stalin" then someone with those beliefs would actually be anti-Putin given his disparaging comments about Soviet Communism.
It's that TheDude abides, man.
I joined because of the domain name and TheDude’s comments and straight forward explanations for things going on.
It’s also what I tell people about my homelab. “I don’t know what’s going on or how, but shit just works.”
undefined> “I don’t know what’s going on or how, but shit just works.”
you're hired
As an anglophone in QC, i was drawn to the openness to embracing the french language
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.
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.
The description said english AND french so I hoped to discuss some french shit but as far as I can tell there is no french discussion, for now.
Edit : J'ai créé ça pour ceux que ça intéresse : https://sh.itjust.works/c/francophone. On verra si ça décolle mais mon but ne sera pas de le modder à terme.
bah on peut parler français si tu veux mais il faut parler français pour avoir des conversations en français pour que l'on vois le français quelque part, mais si on ne le parle pas on ne le voit pas et il n'y aura jamais des discussions en français
(┬┬﹏┬┬)
vas-y et pratique :) !francophone@sh.itjust.works
peut-être, mais je suis certain qu'il y a les gens qui parle français ici! Je parle in petit peu haha
on a créé !francophone@sh.itjust.works, alors tu peux rejoindre si tu veux :)
Merci beaucoup!
Little word about squabbles: centralized and closed source. The day the dev decides bye it's bye, and the day the dev does something dumb, that's it. Not federated, and ultimately nothing you can do except organize another partial exodus. At least with federated it's much easier to have people just make a new account elsewhere, re-sub to their favorite communities and continue as if nothing had happened, losing only a bit of comment history. If you want long term reliability I think this is it. At least I worry about that somewhat more than whether the UI winks at me with its cute charm.
Ce que je me dis c'est que ça veut dire que si j'ai de quoi à demander à l'administrateur au moins ça peut se faire en français, je ne m'attends pas à voir 50/50 français/anglais, surtout que le nom du site est accrocheur et en anglais.
OK, je me suis inscrit
There's a few more francophones in this thread
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/88832
I suspect we need to create a community (although there may already be one we should join, I dunno, I've been here 30seconds)
the server's been alive for less than a week, just make your own communities if you don't find them in the search bar :D you can find existing communities on https://sh.itjust.works/communities
That doesn't show all of them. Better to check on the community browser.
I personally use this one: https://lemmy.directory/communities
more compact
The name was funny and it sounds like the admin has the site running on a decently sized server. Also I saw that someone had created /c/LocalLlama, which is a machine learning sub I used to frequent back on reddit.
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.
My past lemmy instance block downvoting and start filling their instances with stuff that are banned in my country. Also I didn't realise that instance blocks downvoting, which actually a feature that I prefer to have.
The clean energy was the deciding factor for me, since virtually everything's accessible from any instance. There were some bumps around some communities not being found - I assume from rapid growth caused by the reddit exodus - but things are working smoothly now.
I like Canada even if I'm not from it. Plus it seems like a nice quiet place to call a Lemmy home and figure this whole thing out without being overwhelmed. Like, peer into the All and go "whoa man" then just hit Local and chill for a bit.
Lemmy.ml and other popular instances wouldn't let me sign up. The button kept spinning and spinning. I tried for hours to get in those instances, got frustrated and was about to give up on this whole lemmy thing. Then i tried with this instance within a second of hitting sign up button i was in. No weird indefinite spinning animation.
It's because too many people are going to those instances and overloading them.
Hey those are the reasons I signed up. It's less canada-centric than lemmy.ca. Beeshaw and lemmy.ml are at high capacity rn, it's important to spread new users over multiple servers so welcome!
I could actually sign up lol
The name and logo makes me feel right at home personally.
Already registered somewhere else, but just had to join this one for the cool domain name.
Also a Reddit refuge. Just deleted a 6 year old account and all its content. It was a bit bittersweet but alas, it was time to move on with all that's happened. Also applied to Beehaw and Lemmy.ml but can imagine it might be a bit swamped as didn't hear back, so here I am. Glad to be here.
Mine was twelve. If I'm honest, I was unhappy with reddit's direction for at least a solid nine of those, but killing Sync was the last straw. Nuked my account yesterday and don't have any regrets.
I got a Lemmy.ml account approved, but actually loading anything on that instance was damaging my calm. You are not missing anything. Sh.itjust.works has been smooth, friendly, and just works.
I signed up here because of the clean energy thing and because the rules seemed chill enough
Nice Celeste pfp. Can't wait for their new game Earthblade
Wait, new game? I have to check this out
IDK I joined this and kbin thinking I had to join multiple. Still not entirely sure what I'm doing
You only really have to join one Lemmy server that's closest to you or that is more in line with your views. After that, all servers basically synch together to display the content of all the communities of all the servers they are connected with. Unless the particular server you are logged into decides to block any other servers which means their content won't be synchronized and displayed. And if you want to see the content of the blocked servers, then you have to create an account on that specific one and log into it.
Because there's r/NCD refugees here in sufficient numbers
There's dozens of us!
NonCredibleDefense
I honestly don't know, I just saw what I assumed were shitposts on my homepage
Is there any new ncd community here.
I miss ERA a lot after leaving reddit
Sh.itjust.works
Best instance name so far, hands down. I'm a sucker for clever names.
It just works my dude
I was just able to sign up. No loading button or waiting list.
Renewable energy seemed good.
Well, this is the sh.itjust.works Main Community so it's kinda natural to expect people following it to have their account here.
The more the merrier though, by all means come around whenever. How's the server over at fedia.io holding up?
FYI to my fellow sh.itters I needed to select the language as English in order to reply to this comment.
I joined because the rego page for lemmy.world wouldn't work, overloaded?
Whère èlse are you goïngue tou spique tou différente langüadgize ine ze sème plaïce?
I chose this one because it had open registrations. lemmy.world and .ml were my first choices simply due to size.
Same as you beehaw was going to be my first choice but I couldn't get an account even after I read their docs and wrote what I thought was an essay. I like the tongue in cheek name and that they have open registration. I am also hopeful this will be my reddit replacement but I think it's too early to say for sure. Seems to be a chill community so far.
go to feed...
go to feed...
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.
save