Yet another lemmy instance proudly hosted in Montreal, Canada. Still need to get a icon created, if there are any designers here who would like to contribute please feel free to post!

  • redawl@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    Thanks Mr. Dude for this instance. I will try not to be a lurker like I usually am, and help contribute to the community.

    I am an early (I think) refugee from reddit. Can anyone recommend some communities to join? Still confused about the whole federated thing. Tried Mastodon a while back, but as someone who never used twitter I was pretty confused.

  • Barbarian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    I checked the user count compared to an hour ago and we have 40 new users on the instance. Lol. This is really accelerating.

  • pillow@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    Thank you! Tuning in from east coast USA. Does the Lemmy community overall have a plan for the inevitable dupe communities across instances?

    • borari@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Just joined from the Mid-Atlantic portion of the 95 corridor myself!

      I’d love for someone else to chime in with an answer to your question, because that’s something I’ve been wondering myself. I’m pretty sure the general plan in a federated ecosystem is “one of them will become more active, becoming the ‘main’ one”, i.e. it’s an intended feature not an issue. I’m interested to see how that fragmentation might impact an already small user base.

    • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      I asked the same question yesterday and ultimately found this post.

      https://lemmy.ml/post/1163258

      It seems like it’s going to have to evolve organically. Federating individual communities might work, like if you’re subscribed to memes@lemmy.ml it could also pull in posts from memes@sh.itjust.works and other similar communities on a voluntary basis. It is a problem that needs solving though.

      • Barbarian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, been trying to learn Rust & Typescript to contribute towards a multireddit feature, but it’s definitely an uphill struggle. I’m out of my depth.

        Overall though, the fragmentation is mainly just users trying to make this “Reddit 2.0” instead of letting it develop more naturally, and spamming new communities like mad.

        In terms of actually active subreddits with actual users & posts & whatnot, which of these 5 is the “real” technology subreddit?

        /r/Tech /r/Technology /r/TechNews /r/Computing /r/TechSupport

        I could continue, but there’s a lot more. I don’t think most redditors understand how fragmented everything is.

    • boopeditandnow@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I think the fragmentation is a feature; if a server wants to have a Reddit moment and take their ball and go home, the other communities are all still there. Getting the UI to combine the communities visually would be nice, though. I’m sure we’ll get there eventually.

  • BarbarianEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Hi all, wandering around random small Lemmy servers seeing if I can be of use. To pull communities into your instance, you need to first have someone subscribe. Useful picture in this comment, but basically you go to “Communities” at the top, and start a search with the full URL of the community you want (https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy, for example) and change “Communities” to “All” in the search options.

    Once you’ve clicked through to the community and subscribed, it’ll be pulled in forever. If you want to dig around for communities to subscribe to, go to the community finder.

    Good luck, and see you around Lemmy :)

  • TheDude@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Hey all, I’ll be posting updates periodically about performance and server performance to provide everyone interested with some insights as to how many resources this instance is consuming.

  • Googleproof@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Howdy from Scotland. Just dipping my toes in the fediverse, and trying to work things out. Thanks for hosting and welcoming!

    • manifex@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Oiiii!!! Went to a Scottish college in the US: Macalester. Need to get to the highlands sometime in my life! Welcome!

      • Googleproof@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Very cool, looks like a good school. And aye, there’s a reason the highlands are so popular. Especially this time of year with long days and endless green, and September/October for bleak and moody days. Definitely worth a trip.

        • manifex@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Thanks man, it was a great school to go to and I had my hand at learning bagpipes - fucken tough. I almost studied abroad at our sister school in Edinburgh, but ended up in Tokyo. I’m definitely making it to Scotland!

  • SpaceBird@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Greetings from about 5 hours southeast, thanks for setting up this server! Should be interesting to see what happens over the next few days.

  • Illithium@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Sup! Just migrated from the Lemmy.ml instance to give it some breathing space. Thanks for setting this up. It’s fast as f*ck on my mobile browser.