I actually really enjoy this, it’s really cool to login each day and only see UK specific content in a similar style of the subreddits of old, and with most of the features of Reddit. Previously I had to have them with a multi reddit, but my home page was full of world wide content.
I like that due to federation I can still look at content from around the world but it’s not my default experience. Feels more personalised.
Yes, and I love it. I specifically sought out a UK instance for this very reason and am grateful to @tom@feddit.uk for setting it up.
Yeah, it’s really great. I’m a bit sad that UKCasual has ended up somewhere else though…
I suppose there’s no real reason not to start a UKCasual here and may the best community win!
I should of just done it in the first place rather than moan about it haha!
Edit: Boom! https://feddit.uk/c/casualuk
Just had a look and there is currently:
- casualuk@feddit.uk
- ukcasual@lemmy.world - 493 subscribers
- CasualUK@kbin.social - 15 subscribers
- ukcasual@lemmy.podycust.co.uk - 2 subscribers
It’ll be interesting to see how things develop.
Yeah, I have done the same. It shouldn’t be a competition. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the others aren’t actually full of Brits, so hopefully ours is quality over quantity haha!
There’s a lot of chatter across the lemmyverse about how to solve fractured communities with the same topic. Maybe it won’t be an issue forever.
UKcasual on lemmy.world has 2.33k subs. You’ll see a different number depending on which instance you view it from. To see the true number, you need to view it at the source instance.
I like this too. Having spent a bit of time flitting around the fediverse, I believe that we’re going to see local instances with local content, and the larger places with more global.
And honestly? I think it’s quite a healthy way to do things.
If you live in a country of 5 million people, instead of being fractured across 5 big instances, someone can put all the local stuff in a local lemmy for local people (we’ll have no trouble here). If the site admin has to pack it in one day, it’s a far less daunting task to transplant, than a megasite deciding to suddenly go public.
Then when you want to do more global things, you go to a global/US instance.
Yeah I really like this, it’s nice to be in UK specific communities when I’m set to local and see the rest of the Fediverse on subscribed and all.
Personally I have an account here at Feddit UK for UK subs, and separate accounts on other servers on Kbin.Social I’m using for non-UK/generic content.
I’m tempted to subscribe to broader Fediverse content from Feddit UK but then that data would come onto this server (backend). I’m not sure whats the best approach - use one instance to browse the whole Fediverse or multiple accounts on different instances to compartmentalise a little?
It is nice just seeing UK content when I’m on Feddit UK. I even have a custom Lemmy theme (from https://github.com/2xx04/lemmy-ui-themes/) which I changed the background background to a UK Pic so it is instantly seperate from other lemmy instances. The Lemmy UI Themes are easy to install by end users in their browser (use Stylus extension) and can also be installed and adpated by server owners to theme their server.
I am really happy to see this, and props to Tom for making it happen.
I have some minor anxiety down the line about Reddit claiming the URL due to the similarity with their trademark. Am I being paranoid?