Just gonna leave this here for newcomers. I had no idea how this whole fediverse thing worked until I read this comment.
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.
I checked the user count compared to an hour ago and we have 40 new users on the instance. Lol. This is really accelerating.
So, how many users until your beast of a machine actually does catch fire?
Not sure yet but I'm certain we'll find out next week
Thank you! Tuning in from east coast USA. Does the Lemmy community overall have a plan for the inevitable dupe communities across instances?
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.
I asked the same question yesterday and ultimately found this post.
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.
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.
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.
Greetings from about 5 hours southeast, thanks for setting up this server! Should be interesting to see what happens over the next few days.
Hello from Baghdad. Thanks for hosting. This fediverse needs some getting used to.
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.
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?
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?
~~I think the issue with feddit.de is that, "I think", it is blocking the federetaion with this server. I may be totally wrong, since I am digging how this works for like 1h, but I can see this server as "blocked" here: https://lemmymap.feddit.de/ I wish there was a list instead of the map because it is unreadable, but you can search for sh.itjust.works there. Remember to select "blocked" first in the bottom left.~~
EDIT: Incorrect information. Read comments below.
So if it is blocking us, then the only solutions on my end would be:
I'm not very network/backend/whateverisgoingonhere savvy.
I think the most appropriate way would be for @TheDude to reach out to their team and request federation.
I was reading comments on another post that were talking about issues regarding pulling in the post/comment history of a community on another instance prior to a user subscribing to the community on their own "home" instance.
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.
You should be able to click on the link in your "Subscribed" panel on the right of the page to go to the specific community page. Your browser URL bar and the page header should still show that you are on sh.itjust.works, since you are indeed still here. On the backend, the sh.itjust.works server is talking to the feddit.de server and saying "Hey, I have a user that wants to see content from this boardgame community you have. Can you send me any new posts for that community?".
Here's where I get fuzzy. I am under the impression that while posts themselves will federate from the main instance to the database for this instance, until someone here interacts with them, meaning they upvote, downvote, or comment on it, comments won't propagate? I might be completely wrong here though.
If I'm wrong about any of this please let me know!
If an account here is subscribed to a community, and someone posts a comment in that community, then it will be federated to this server. It just won't go back and federate old comments unless someone copies the comment link and searches for it.
This all is cool, but I'm sad the biggest instance by far is admined by tankies. Like this guy gets quickly banned for posting articles about North Korea and Russia in the world news community.
I really don't see this popping off if new instances aren't willing to block the "main" instance.
He didn't get banned that quickly, he basically called out tankie propaganda for a week before they banned him.
The beauty of this platform is that we actually can block the main instance and also create as many world news communities of our own as we want. It won't take long before the OG communities are outnumbered anyway.
What's a tankie?
A communist who is supportive of authoritarian regimes like Stalin/Mao zedong. They tend to think in terms of opposing capitalism, and therefore any regime which challenges US hegemony can be justified regardless of horrific human rights abuses.
Hi from the Netherlands and thanks for running this!
Yay for the new icon! Love the satisfied seal.
Thank you for hosting! I'm trying to branch out from the main instance since they're under so much load right now. It looks like there are already some good communities on here, too.
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 :)
Hey everyone!
Excited to join the Lemmy train, while not my first federated experience (been used and working on federated platforms for quite a while) I'm excited for a more reddit-like one as that's the kind of social network which seems to gel with me best. Thanks for setting this up!
I've noticed that some communities from other instances don't seem easily accessible. For example the nintendo community on lemmy.ml. I think it should be available at https://sh.itjust.works/c/nintendo@lemmy.ml but that just 404s. Of course this could be user error, let me know if I'm using it wrong :)
Hey! So, communities aren't pulled in until at least 1 person on this server is subscribed to it. What you need to do is go to Communities at the top, search for the full URL (https://lemmy.ml/c/nintendo), switch the search from "Communities" to "All", then wait ~10 seconds or so for it to pull in the community. Then just follow the link and hit the "Subscribe" button on the right.
Once that happens, that link (https://sh.itjust.works/c/nintendo@lemmy.ml) will work for everyone.
It would explode every Lemmy server if they pulled in all communities from every other server all the time, even if nobody cared.
Thank you so much for your help!
You might also want to poke around the community browser, see if you can spot anything else you might want.
I'm fully expecting lemmy.ml to crash sometime in the next few days, too many people thinking developer run = main instance = join main instance, so it's a good idea to set up some links to other servers in advance, if any catch your eye.
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.
Hello from western Canada! I just wanted to pop in and say thank you for creating this instance - feels like a great place to start my Lemmy journey.
Hi all! Half Romanian, half English, all weird.
My previous accounts are @Barbarian@lemmy.ml (abandoned to alleviate server issues) and @Barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev (I just thought the server name was cool, looks like it's somebody's abandoned solo instance with registration left on)
Home of the sh.itjust.works instance.
