I've been using this instance for the last few days, and (sh)it just works without hassle!
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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I was just able to sign up. No loading button or waiting list.
The icon of the happy lemming does it for me.
I appreciate the 'Honorary Canadian' bit, too... I used to live in Duluth and have said the same myself!
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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?
Sh.itjust.works
"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.
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.
MN here too... enjoying Lemmy thus far
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.
Similar experience tbh. Tried lemmy.world, slow + approval process required. Tried here. Immediately in and lightning fast. Best server.
It's because too many people are going to those instances and overloading them.