Welcome to Feddit.uk!

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/1

What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is link aggregator software that exists in the fediverse, meaning it connects with other “ActivityPub” software like Mastodon and other Lemmy instances. Basically, you can follow and interact with communities here on feddit.uk, on any other Lemmy instance, or even from your Mastodon account!
What is Feddit.uk
Feddit UK is a UK specific instance of Lemmy, ideal for people from the UK or are just interested in following the UK community.
This instance is hosted by me Tom, an experienced software dev based in London. I decided to host Feddit UK as I saw many instances already made for other countries and none for the UK and saw the need for a UK community on the Fediverse. To help the upkeep cost of this instance, please consider donating by buying me a coffee!

Why Feddit
Feddit comes from the combination of the words Fediverse and Reddit. Lemmy is a new alternative to Reddit based on the Fediverse!
What are the rules here?
No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or xenophobia
No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies
No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users
Do not share intentionally false or misleading information
Do not spam or abuse network features.

38 comments

Thank you @tom@feddit.uk for setting this up!

Hey everyone. I'm new to Federated internet as a whole (no points for guessing where I've spent the last 13 years of my time on the internet) but happy I found a UK centric instance to join! Thanks for setting this up @tom@feddit.uk . I'll chuck over a fiver when i can!

Thanks Tom. I didn’t realise lemmy lag was tied to the instance, so I’ve switched from lemmy.world to here. Already it’s blazing fast!
Thanks to federation I guess it makes NO difference content wise as to what we see in our All feeds right?
And being in the UK myself performance should be great. Thanks mate
- There should be next to no difference in content. In theory, de-federation could lead to a difference. E.g. if lemmy.world de-federated with someone, feddit.uk would still be able to see and interact with it.
  In practice however, basically the same.
- I've just don't the same thing for the same reasons. That is the beauty of fediverse. We can still see the same content (with caveat of dedederation on each particular instance).

Cheers! Been hoping for a UK instance
If you set up a patreon I'd happily set up a recurring payment. Quite a few do it for mastodon.org.uk I think 👍
I'm a dev too, and quite excited by the fact it's written in Rust and seems to have a lot of things that need doing. If I can get some time I'd like to have a poke around 😀
- Once I've learned how things work around here I'd love to pay it forward and contribute to the code. Rust is great, too!

Why does organising posts by 'hot' show posts that are 10 days old?
- Sorry I've updated the instance so hopefully that should fix it
  
  Thanks Tom!

Hi @tom@feddit.uk . Thanks for setting up and hosting this instance.
I created a new community "pomeranians". It is not UK specific, please let me know if it is not appropriate and I will move it to another instance.
- Hi there, yeh that’s fine no worries, we have a few communities not explicitly uk specific

Hi @tom@feddit.uk. This feels like MySpace all over again but I don't see you on my friend list.

Hi @tom@feddit.uk Thanks for setting this up. It's all new to me but I hope to contribute more once I've found my feet. Good Luck to you and all other users.

Thanks for the intro,Tom. Just arrived here and finding my way at present. Looking good so far... 😁

thanks for setting it up, lets hope we stay active.
just a quick question - what happens if the instance goes dark ? do we have to create accounts on other instances ?
- He has said he keeps regular backups in case things go bad, so feddit.uk will remain in some form :)
- I believe so. If I understand the ferlderation correctly, our accounts are stored on this server. So if it goes dark we loose out account and linked communities
  This is why your account looks like user@feddit.uk to other servers. And toy can setup a selerate account on e.g user@lemmy.world

I noticed some comments from ukcasual@lemmy.world aren't federating to feddit.uk this evening. These are a couple of hours old so I would have thought they would have propagated through. Wondering if there are any issues?
- Definitely some federation issues. I ended up creating an account on both instances because so much stuff is missing when you view each instance from within the other.

from now call me jack

Glad to find a space for UK communities!

Is anyone else using Jerboa and when trying to subscribe to communities you just get stuck on "Pending"? I couldn't find a help community so not sure where to post this
- just seems to be a general lemmy issue same problem via a web browser.
- Seems ok on wefwef.
- You should give liftoff a try, it seems a bit more stable than jerboa.

has any notice those live pop ups, top right on the screen ?
if you selected [all] - as in, included posts to your subs on other servers, you get like a sporadic burst of pop ups, like a live feed of new stuff.
@tom@feddit.uk any idea how this works ? is federation like, live, or every 5 mins or what am i seeing ?!?
It's wild.!
- Haven't seen the popups but I know federation is pretty much live yeh! It works with websockets at the moment and new messages are received to your browser pretty much every second
  
  managed to grab a screen

Take my ko-fi money! Thank you for setting this up!
- Much appreciated mate, thanks for the donation!

Hello! Thank you for setting this up!

Hi Tom - I made a Lemmy account on feddit.uk earlier today (same username as this) as I figured that many of the communities I interact with most often on Reddit are UK-based and so I might want to base myself on feddit.uk to minimise the federation lag I've been observing from kbin the last couple of days. All seemed to work fine, but then after I logged out I was unable to log back in again - no error message, it just whirs away and then nothing happens. I've tried on both my phone and laptop, exactly the same thing happens. Any chance you know what's going on and could suggest something? I can at least see that my account does exist!

@tom thanks for doing this.
Do you have any affiliate codes? For things like Amazon.co.uk or other places that do it? If we link to products from here, you might as well claw a bit of cash back from the company for driving sales there and the trickle of cash should help, especially as the place grows (affiliate link money should scale with the user base). It may even be possible to have a bot who adds the affiliate code to the relevant links, but that is beyond my meager understanding of such things
- No worries, there is a donation link in the post and that alone should be enough to cover the costs for now
  
  My thinking was that if we are linking to Amazon you might as well get some money off them - I think they have more than enough!

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