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Welcome All! (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TheDude@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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!

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[-] TacoThrash3r@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for hosting this!

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Just gonna leave this here for newcomers. I had no idea how this whole fediverse thing worked until I read this comment.

https://lemmy.world/comment/20357

[-] ZeeXIII@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Hello from Baghdad. Thanks for hosting. This fediverse needs some getting used to.

[-] liaizon@social.wake.st 1 points 1 year ago

@ZeeXIII @TheDude Hello Zee! How did you discover the fediverse? Just through the reddit fiasco? Hello to Baghdad from Berlin!

[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] TheDude@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

So, how many users until your beast of a machine actually does catch fire?

[-] TheDude@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Not sure yet but I'm certain we'll find out next week

[-] redawl@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year 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.

[-] TheDude@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] pillow@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year 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.works 1 points 1 year 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.works 1 points 1 year 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.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] Barbarian@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year 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 :)

[-] awdsns@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Hi! Thanks for setting up this instance! I've also been advising newcomers to sign up here since you seem to have the resources for it.

However, I have been seeing some weird behavior in some federated posts: vote discrepancies and also comments not showing up.

E.g. compare
https://feddit.de/post/764358 with
https://sh.itjust.works/post/9023 (same post federated here)

All votes and comments are missing. Now I don't expect Lemmy to be 100% bug-free of course, but this seems serious. Could you please investigate this?

[-] itzpea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I'm new here, to this Lemmy thing as well as this 'instance'? (I feel like I'm using hip new words).

I think I have managed to subscribe to a boardgame community that is hosted on !boardgames feddit.de- I can't see the comments and such when viewing from here as well.

I'm also having difficulty finding and adding this solo boardgame community because I can't get it to show up in the search box. Is this a Lemmy thing or an instance thing?

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