…maybe. Welcome, UK (and worldwide) people and reddit deserters.
Oh, thank god, /r/CasualUK was the best place on Reddit. Glad some of us have made it over here.
Any luck catching them swans, then?
It’s just the one swan actually
Hi from Edinburgh - I never actually used (or even knew about) /r/casualUK, but new to Lemmy and looking to add so my subscriptions while I find my feet!
Oh you were absolutely missing out! Best thing about
RedditLemmyHa ha, fair enough, well I’m glad I’m here now then.
Hello from North Wales. Glad to find a good UK-specific community!
Hi! Also from North Wales, slowly figuring this all out
Welcome and shamai!
Hello fellow reddit refugees!
Glad to see another casualuk on here, was my favourite place before reddit shot itself in the foot.
waves Not from the UK but I’m a Reddit refugee and occasionally lurked the sub. Greetings from Ohio!
Hello there!
/r/CasualUK in Lemmy. The circle is complete.
Getting in early to prove my dedication
Oh hey, it’s a casUK.
Are we thinking of using the same timetable for daily posts, or mixing it up? I do very much enjoy Thursday Rants, and I’m not the only one, I’m sure.
I’m down to rant all day everyday tbh
Another Reddit refugee here. Still trying to work out what I’m doing - and let’s pretend for the moment I mean with Lemmy and not life in general ;)
Hello, everyone!
Ah yes (sips tea) cannot help, but begin the collonasation.
Just need a /r/AskUK and I think we’re sorted UK-wise!
Yet another reddit refugee here, hello everyone!
p.s. I’m not UK, hope you won’t mind :)
We’ll allow it!
Haha thanks! :D
Hi, another reddit refugee here. Waves from London I promise not to be a dick.
Hello!
I’m here still trying to figure out how instances and communities differ.
I signed up on lemmy.world, which is the hosting instance for my account, right? And then I’m posting this in a thread in the CasualUK community.
But is this community just on lemmy.world, or across all instances?
I’m working it out too.
Lemmy.world is an instance - a server that hosts your account and any data.
UKCasual is a community, essentially a subreddit. Its stored solely on the Lemmy.world server
Whilst this community is stored on lemmy.world, if you’re logged into another instance you can still see and interact with the UKCasual community, but data remains on lemmy.world
I’m not sure if there’s a sync delay between instances etc
Okay. So if lemmy.world goes down then presumably all the communities it hosts also go down? This seems to present a bit of a logistical problem for community longevity. For example, a small instance that creates a popular community across all of the fediverse then has to try and support a large amount of traffic with possibly little local income/support?
Yes, as far as I understand that is an issue. I guess more popular instances may request donations to increase resources in future? I believe that Lemmy is super lightweight so shouldn’t need much in the way of server power etc
For now this is peanuts. If it might grow a lot, I can use some of the mastodon.world donations or setup a new Patreon.
What I think is needed is a way to migrate communities and users between servers and something like the Mastodon Server Covenant so people would have time to migrate if a server decided it was going away.
That would be great
I think your posts and comments are stored on your own instance - lemmy.world for example - and then that instance uses the ActivityPub protocol to tell the community you interacted with that you did it.
From there I’m not sure exactly. I think the primary source of truth for your activity is still your home server, but the server hosting the community still at least caches the data as well, meaning a popular community might still overload it.
It also seems to create multiple of the same communities. Also depending on what instance you are signed up with you can’t access posts from certain other instances
Only if your instance is banned by another.
Duplicate communities will exist for a while, but the same thing happens on reddit.
I think this is why lemmy.ml has been asking people to stop signing up there. Centralising everything goes against the point of the Fediverse but also ends up costing the people running the instance a lot of money. It’s best for everyone if we all spread out a bit.
My other account is on Beehaw.org and they’re pretty transparent about what it’s costing them and how many donations they’ve had, it’s definitely interesting https://beehaw.org/post/416496
Is it beneficial to have accounts across multiple instances?
Nah, I just have two because I’ve historically split my online presence up into these two usernames. Tbh I’ve just subbed this one to all of the same communities as the other one so it’s largely pointless until things spread out a bit more, but if I’m posting about videogames I tend to do it under this name and if I’m posting about cross stitch I tend to do it on the other one. Eurovision goes on both :D
No actual practical benefit beyond it just seeming tidier to me lol.
I think it’s a good idea to spread out your online presence to regain some anonymity; being doxed or stalked does not sound like fun.
Some people post pictures of their street and their airline ticket and then are surprised when they get back to find they’ve been burgled.
The community is cross platform as I’m signed in via beehaw with a nice new name that has no connection to my old Reddit one
I’m here. Took a few days as I stood up my own friendica instance first off and it took me a while to realize it doesn’t play that well with Lemmy. So I’ve started my own Lemmy instance now, which was 300% harder than it should have been as the devs aren’t keeping the documentation up to date with the config files.
Now that I’ve used the fediverse it’s not as weird as it sounds. But the learning curve is steep and I’m only here thanks to perseverance.
