Title says it all!? I’m a reddit refuge and picked this instance because it’s A) Canadian (I’m in MN, so consider myself an honorary Canadian), and B) The clean energy thing.

Applied to Beehaw but never heard back. Dittos on Lemmy.ML!

So hoping this is going to be a great “home” away from Reddit for the foreseeable future.

Cheers, and well done on the instance, admins!

  • this@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have no way to prove this story since I burned my reddit account, but I might as well share: when I was checking out lemmy for the first time I got both a beehaw and a lemmy.ml account(both were a pain to wet up) and both had serious reliability issues(this was right after the API announcement). I was looking on reddit to try and find more info about other instances then I found a comment chain with a couple of guys, one said he had a server, the other said he had the domain itjust.works and was looking for a subdomain. I though about it for a moment, and in a moment of sheer smartassery I suggested sh.itjust.works. not long after I saw in the comment chain that they went with my suggestion and put the server up lmao. At that point I knew they were chill, so I made an account on here as soon as I saw that it had gone up, and it’s been rock solid ever since.

    Edit: as @TheDude and others have pointed out, this happened here on the lemmy.ml instance, not reddit. It seems my memory is at fault lmao. I’m going to keep the rest of this comment unedited because its a good story anyways, but yea, I was wrong about where it happened. I’m glad I was wrong tho since i t means I still have that account, lol.

  • April@fedia.io
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    1 year ago

    “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.

    • manitcor@lemmy.intai.techEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • ShadowAether@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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.

        • manitcor@lemmy.intai.techEnglish
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          1 year ago

          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.

          • ShadowAether@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            1 year ago

            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.

            • manitcor@lemmy.intai.techEnglish
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              1 year ago

              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.

              • ShadowAether@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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                1 year ago

                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?

  • manifex@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ll chime in as a newly minted mod…. Well implemented enterprise infrastructure supported by a team of experienced infrastructure guys, mods, techies, etc.

    It handles all the loads.

  • Zeppo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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!

    • manifex@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Oooooooh Jeez. I went to college in the sin cities and have been up to the boundary waters… I’d say you are one for sure!___