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!
Best instance name so far, hands down. I’m a sucker for clever names.
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.
Not to throw you under the bus @[email protected] but that’s not exactly how I recall it going down. Everything in your story is accurate with the exception of where the conversation happened. It happened on a Lemmy instance!. The conversation started on the lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead post. If you are indeed the same user who recommended the name you definitely get a token of recognition for coming up with it!
Thank you for your service o7
this
No, please, not here.
this
It Just Works!
The name and the fact that it does just work. I registered and immediately had an account unlike some other instances.
Shit just works
Sh… 🤫 It just works!
Thanks for hosting this instance. Apart from the great name and the chill environment, this is the first instance that let me sign in without issues or infinitely spinning buttons. Also it looks like this one has better server capacity compared to other instances!
I was mainly a lurker in reddit, but will try to be more active here.
I had the same experience. I almost didn’t make it onto the lemmyverse - I tried lemmy.ml and beehaw, didn’t get let in / tried to log in too soon after I applied, then forgot about it.
Any site with an application process is going to turn away a lot of people.
Hard agree, I started with beehaw, saw that it has an application process, and I didn’t even bother.
The fact that they defederated from this instance says a lot about them too.
The fact that they defederated from this instance says a lot about them too.
Exactly. I’ve got an account there, but i view it as basically useless now.
They’re way too uptight about a lot of shit to be an open forum of discussion.
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.
It handles all the loads.
I had an ex like that. It’s less impressive when it’s unexpected
I cannot have such smut in my feed, provide me with her username so I can block her
Comments like this make me feel right at home.
giggity
Agreed. This server is just great quality. Makes me happy to be here. That + the name = magic.
Old reddit, how I’ve missed thee. I think I love Lemmy now. Can I join your memology 101 class?
The spirit is definitely here. I even hit ‘Top Blocked Users’ in the Top 10 of our security suite (out of globally 10,000 users) due to federating some porno feeds. I was like, 'Yo! I don’t even know lemmy.world, must have been some federation in my feed I didn’t even see. ’
Already registered somewhere else, but just had to join this one for the cool domain name.
Lmao love the username
So far the atmosphere here seems far more cooperative and optimistic… like a certain other place circa 2008.
I’m liking it, it’s a breath of fresh air and I’d forgotten that smell.
@[email protected] - Keep commercial interests / astroturfing etc. off this place like our lives depend on it!
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My past lemmy instance block downvoting and start filling their instances with stuff that are banned in my country. Also I didn’t realise that instance blocks downvoting, which actually a feature that I prefer to have.
frech help
Renewable energy seemed good.
I also joined cause of the domain name. Silly just like the early 2000s internet. The admin and everyone on here seems really laid-back and cool.
Test posting with Jerboa. Please ignore this comment.
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test posts // comments : here’s the place :
!anything or [email protected]You can’t tell me what to do!
I joined because the rego page for lemmy.world wouldn’t work, overloaded?
Also here after getting impatient with beehaw and hearing… questionable things about .ml. Was a lurker on reddit but trying to be active here. Thanks for hosting, admins!
What questionable things?
Probably that the admins of that instance are tankies who support the CCP and Russia.
If true then its ironic that they are trying to run a federated free speech platfomr
Tankies don’t support Russia. If you’re going to use the term as an insult, at least use it right.
A lot of people who are called talkies supoort Russia but if you consider talkies as “authoritarian communist who romanticized Lenin and Stalin” then someone with those beliefs would actually be anti-Putin given his disparaging comments about Soviet Communism.
