Feddit UK

Reddit account deleted. It’s weird, fell out of love with Facebook but still have the account, but as a paying Reddit customer I held it to higher expectations.

Lemmy seems clunky still, but if Star Trek has taught us anything it’s that the federation is the future. Let’s make it so.

Using pc, via browser (Firefox fork).

Tried the new 2FA option in settings, but it just gives a weird link that my browser cannot open.

How does 2FA work here? (My email, steam login, &etc, 2FA methods send a text message to my phone with a code to input into the website. Easy peasy.)

I'm quite technical, so my best guess is that this 2FA method is aimed at smartphone apps.

ps, Greetings to all. & thanks @Tom for creating a UK feddit.

*edit (as comments aren't working for me yet)* ~ Thank you @GreatAlbatross for the detailed explanation. Good thing I hit "disable 2FA" after the failed attempt. 
~ So, best to NOT use it for now (via PC). ~

Growing pains indeed. More testing required for that feature. 
(Also TOTP = "top of the pops" to a brit, hehe.)

Well, looks like Feddit (I hope there's a German one called Deddit) is now my home. I've been here a while and am enjoying the more intimate atmos.

Over the last couple of weeks I've downloaded all my reddit posts and comments, deleted all my reddit posts and comments and now, today, deleted my account.

Goodbye /u/TheWrongFusebox, you were a blast.

Been trying all week to get in and now I finally made it. Hello all you jolly folks

Thanks for the upgrade now Jerboa works again 😍

I have an account on feddit.uk and lemmy.world with almost identical subscriptions.

When I visit the feddit.uk homepage and look at posts from my subscriptions sorted by "hot", the two posts immediately after the two pinned Feddit UK posts at the top are 6 days old. The behaviour with "active" is similar. Posts shown are quite old, and neither hot nor active.

When I visit the lemmy.world homepage and look at the "hot" posts from my subscriptions, the first 10 are all with the last couple of hours. Active shows posts in the last 24 hours with a healthly number of comments.

Both servers are running 0.17.4

Basically, right now feddit.uk is almost unusable for me due to both hot and active being populated by stale posts. I need to search by "new" to get anything approaching useful - but when I do that there is just too much to sift through.

I am having a big issue with external communities not subscribing. Many are stuck in "Subscribe Pending". I found a link to a related GitHub issue that might be helpful for Tom to look at. Unsubscribing and resubscribing is not working on the Feddit instance.

Feddit UK continues to grow, and as such @tom@feddit.uk is going to need to spend more time and money on hosting, moderation, and general tinkering. Using the Ko-Fi link is good for giving the odd one-off donation, but perhaps an OpenCollective account (like some of the Mastodon servers are using) would be a longer-term approach.

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I've been trying to join nintendoswitch@kbin.social for a few days. Going to https://feddit.uk/c/nintendoswitch@kbin.social gives me a 404. Using the same URL on a couple other Lemmy instances (eg lemmy.world) seems to work. Is there an issue preventing new communities/magazines from federating properly to feddit.uk?

I can happily see the mander@mander.xyz community but cannot see communities such as biology@mander.xyz or natural_process_art@mander.xyz when using my feddut.uk account. Might be happening for communities on other instances but I haven't noticed if that's the case.

I have since made a lemmy.world account where I have no trouble doing so. Would love to stay on this instance long term - the local timeline is really great here (great going instance admins and mods)!

Just posting this to bring attention as I'm hoping this teething problem can be figured out at some point when the admins have some time to do so.

A new version of Jerboa is out, and I was immediately greeted by a popup saying the instance version is on 0.17.4 (?) and Jerboa won't work correctly until it is upgraded to 0.18.

The app just crashed when I tried to upvote a comment, so is kinda unusable, and downgrading isn't ideal.

Are there plans to upgrade?

I would @ tom, but seems that isn't working in the app either sadly.

Feddit UK is great but at the moment there aren't any World News communities based on this server. UnitedKingdom@feddit.uk seems to be covering UK news which make sense.

There obviously doesn't need to be a specific separate community on every instance due to the nature of the fediverse, but I do wonder whether a World News community based on Feddit UK would be something a bit more unique that people might engage with?

The idea would be for people to post World News but preferrably from UK News sources (although not exclusively or too strictly) and to foster discussions that would be likely be more from UK users perspectives as it's based on Feddit UK? It's something that doesn't really work on Reddit but in the Fediverse a general community on big global servers and more regionalised communities seem to be something that co-exist? There can be News@feddit.UK and separate News@feddit.de and so on

Or would it be unnessary duplication and risk diluting communities that need to grow, build content and be broad appealat this stage? Also are some things just better done on a global scale to stop things being an echo chamber?

From Chrome 114.0.5735.124 on iPad, my login doesn’t come back, just the whirling animation. It logs in just fine on Safari. Just thought you should know. Am I reporting this in the right place? Time now 13.50 UTC, Thu 22/06.

So hopefully this is ok for me to ask here. But yeah, i.e. I be an idiot.

I tried adding an email address to the account and clicking forgot password in another not logged in browser but I haven't received anything yet.

Any ideas?

I asked my friend to begrudgingly sign up to feddit.uk and the request never goes through. Is there some sort of server issue?

Just starting another discussion (sorry tom!), about the gender community we have. gender@feddit.uk

The sub sidebar states that it is designed for balanced debate. It links to a gender-critical and anti-lgbt locations, while also linking to blahaj, and referring to beehaw as a hugbox.

@babe made a post the other day raising concerns with the posts arriving on the sub, and the mods locked it.

There are cross-posts from a community named parental-rights, a common dogwhistle for people wanting to block minor access to trans healthcare, and users posting about how trans healthcare is a conspiracy by the medical industry.

Someone affected directly by the issues being raised isn't going to want to stick around and argue with someone who thinks they shouldn't exist.
They're more likely to write off the whole server, and leave.

It's still early days on this instance, but imho this is not a good look for us.

This includes all of the @beehaw.org communities I tried to subscribe to. It also includes all BUT ONE of the @lemmy.world communities I tried to subscribe to. (https://feddit.uk/c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world did let me subscribe.)

What's the holdup? Do community owners get to decide whether I can subscribe? Is it something to do with the domains? Is it a local issue? I don't understand what's happening.

Hi all,

This post is mostly geared towards other mods and admins, but any one else should feel free to comment with ideas or help if they want to.

I've been wondering if anyone is using any bots or other tools to help them moderate or generate content for their communities.

I'm going to be trying this bot to do some fun stuff, maybe posting regular threads, but it's going to require hosting and a bit of coding to do what I want to, so I thought I'd see if anyone know of any other good tools.

Additionally, It might also be nice to have some way of all mods across feddit.uk where we can talk about instance wide topics. Maybe I'm getting ahead of things, but I'd appreciate a mod community or something.

To be honest, I'm not even sure if I've found any mod tools on the platform! I've seen pinned posts, but no idea how to create one.

Happy to hear any and all thoughts!

I thought this might be worth a little bit of discussion at the moment.

We've had a few communities started by existing subs on the other site, some making it clear that it's staking a claim to the same name on here in case they ever decide to move, but that they have no plans to at the moment, and will not be doing any moderating.

I have to be honest, this kinda rubs me the wrong way. It feels like hedging your bets, running one community, not running the other one, but still intending to be in charge if it takes off despite that.

If you'd like to start a community here in the same style as an existing one, that's great, go for it!
Moderate, post great content, grow!

But if you're aiming to put your name on undeveloped land, in the hope that when you come back someone will have built a farm, I'm not sure it's very helpful.

Discussion encouraged!

I'm sure it's them, not us - but is any else having similar difficulty ?

I actually really enjoy this, it’s really cool to login each day and only see UK specific content in a similar style of the subreddits of old, and with most of the features of Reddit. Previously I had to have them with a multi reddit, but my home page was full of world wide content.

I like that due to federation I can still look at content from around the world but it’s not my default experience. Feels more personalised.

I created a community here a while back. !narrowboat@feddiit.uk

Overnight it seems to have vanished with all its posts having gone.

Any idea why?

I have noticed recent slowness on this instance today, it wasn’t like this previously, the server is under heavy load, which makes sense because right now, we are gaining 100 new users or more each hour.

Please bear with the instance, it’s totally worth sticking around. Lemmy is the future and is going through some growing pains but will equalise over time.

Update: found this post https://lemmy.world/post/305667

The user count may not be genuine users and I feel that Lemmy instances might be under a type of DDOS attack

Early last week it was ~600 registered users, then last Friday ~700-800, 5 hours ago it was ~2.8k and now its 3.1k

Update: It has come to my attention that Lemmy is under a spam user registration attack. Feddit.uk is not the only instance affected.

https://lemmy.cat/post/6401

Side note: Starting to notice some instance server load issues here. Not as snappy as it was due to the influx of new spam users.

Update 20th June: Tom has now enabled captcha and email verification on feddit.uk

Don’t forget to check the sidebar out on the feddit.uk homepage and donate to @tom@feddit.uk to assist with server upkeep and hopefully more server resource.