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!
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
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.
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!
It's all the lemmy.ml coms I've tried to join that are showing as pending. I'm going to guess we have some kind of federation issue between here and there.
I had the same issue with [email protected]. 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/[email protected] 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 [email protected] think if I give it some time the posts may cache here, @[email protected] do you know if you configure different caching times?
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!
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
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