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!

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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.
  • jalexmateyEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    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!

    • ckempoEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Ditto. Curious if when the influx comes, this site ends up disappearing under the load…

    • tomOPMAEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.