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!

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.
  • Astigma@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    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!

  • Sev@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    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

    • Cynar@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • JesusTheCarpenter@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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).

  • spidget@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    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 😀

    • noodle@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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!

  • rubikfrog@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    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?

    • juniper@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Stephen@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

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

  • walkwalkwalkwalk@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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

  • twilp@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • tom@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Hey I’ve just made a post about the verification emails but could you send me a PM with the email in question please?

  • theinspectorst@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    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!

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    @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

    • tom@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      No worries, there is a donation link in the post and that alone should be enough to cover the costs for now