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.
Thanks for setting up this instance @tom.
I’m just curious on how this is being hosted, is it a VM hosted locally, in the cloud etc?
Lemmy is very interesting from my perspective (Platform engineer) and I have noticed some instances scaling vertically instead of horizontally (which is pain on your side since it means downtime etc).
I was having a look a the docker-compose file to set this up and I believe that getting it into Cloud Run (GCP product) would really help hosters with their scaling capablities!
Anyway, looking forward to using feddit.uk more!
Ditto. Curious if when the influx comes, this site ends up disappearing under the load…
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Hey @jalexmatey welcome! At the moment yeh the server is simply on a basic Hetzner server which allows me to scale the server instance vertically if we need it. This will cause downtime however so I think your suggestion of putting on something that scales more dynamically is a good idea, will look at setting this up sometime this week.
Thanks for setting up a UK based instance Tom. I see that the federation between this instance and communities from external instances seems to be growing now! (I think? Tbh I have no idea what I’m doing but it seemed to be working a minute ago.) Appreciate the work you’re putting into building a new place for us.
Like the server and community hoping Lemmy and this community will grow strong.
Does anyone know, how do I go about subscribing to a community that exists on another instance but that doesn’t come up when I search? I’ve been to browse.feddit.de and found https://lemmy.ml/c/dwarffortress exists and now I want to subscribe to it but can’t work it out!
I had the same issue with !linux@lemmy.ml. It’s updated now but when I try to leave a comment the loading spinner just spins forever and it never posts. Definitely seems like somethings up.
To answer a bit my own question (and to make things easier for future refugees), I changed my URL to https://feddit.uk/c/dwarffortress@lemmy.ml which took me ostensibly to that community, whichi let me subscribe.
I don’t actually see any of the posts that I know are there because I can go to https://lemmy.ml/c/dwarffortress but that might be a problem for another time
Same here with !chatgpt@lemmy.ml think if I give it some time the posts may cache here, @tom@feddit.uk do you know if you configure different caching times?
This is a Lemmy issue, it doesn’t start to index stuff from remote servers unless users interact with it. For example if you go to !deathcore@lemmy.ml you’ll only see this post because I specifically pulled it in.
(Also, lemmy.ml seems to be struggling ATM)
It seems the federation works for some communities but not others. Is there a way to pull in small communities manually or are we just having to wait?
Here from Reddit. Thank you for hosting this.
Hello, thanks for hosting. I’m not from reddit, but given the recent events I thought it’s a good time to join and hopefully help snowball a federated platform.
I’ve been using matrix for a while but struggle to find active communities - perhaps due to the nature of chat rooms. Hopefully lemmy fares better.
Do keep us posted with the technical details of the instance - I think many people here would appreciate it.
Hello 👋 , yeh will post an update tomorrow as I’m looking to upgrade the server soon as there are quite a lot of users now and I might need some more admins as well
Hi Tom 👋
Hi @Burt_Toastcrumbs welcome 👋
Just here from reddit also. Looked at mastodon before but was never a twitter guy so hopefully the current reddit shambles will be a a good catalyst for lemmy etc. Glad i found a uk instance!
@tom Hi, great to see you set up an instance for UK. I am just testing how this works with mastodon or if i need to make a separate account.
Hi im glad to be here have just deleted my reddit account lol
Is there any sort of new user help community that anyone knows about? Every time I try to comment on anything the ‘Post’ button just keeps spinning.
Edit: judging by the fact it works here I’m guessing it has something to do with trying to comment in communities on other servers/instances?
seems a bit odd right now, so you’re supposed to be able to connect with other communities on other instances, and i can see https://feddit.uk/c/selfhosted@lemmy.world but get a 404 on https://feddit.uk/c/metalmemes@lemmy.world
Yeah I was seeing some issues posting to (and even loading from) other instances. Timed my week off quite precisely for this :)
Sup, hope this places can survive any potential big loads from /r/unitedkingdom
Hi, Hope Lemmy takes off, seen a few centralized reddit clones fail.
viable alternatives are always welcome.
Hi @starvaldD welcome 👋 . Yeh hopefully it takes off, lets see what happens!
I’m always down for alternatives to bloated services. Let’s hope it works out!
Hi Tom
Hey @amscan welcome to the community :)
Hi @tom.
I noticed non of feddit.uk local communities seem to show up in browse.feddit.de
As this is where lemmy points folks to search. It seems a good idea to get it listed somehow. Just to reduce unwanted community splitting. But I am having issues working out how.
According the the feddit.de admin if other instances know about feddit.uk the system should check it 4x a day to list communities.
So as !narrowboat now has a few members from other instances that list it in all. I’m suprised it still will not show up this morning.
Do you have any ideas where to look for advice on this.
Sorry it took me a while to reply I’ve looked into this and I’m not sure what’s wrong, I’ve tried searching for feddit.uk instance on all the big instances and can’t find us.
Check nginx error logs and not found anything yet I’ll dig deeper into this later in the week as well as upgrade the server just in case it’s a load issue
@tom @HumanPenguin If it helps, I managed to subscribe from kbin (fedia.io), so federation is definitely working.
nods. @wintermute@feddit.de is the admin at feddit.de
Id recommend you introduce yourself and see if he has more ideas?
Perfect thanks yeh will get in touch with him this week
