Title says it all!? I’m a reddit refuge and picked this instance because it’s A) Canadian (I’m in MN, so consider myself an honorary Canadian), and B) The clean energy thing.
Applied to Beehaw but never heard back. Dittos on Lemmy.ML!
So hoping this is going to be a great “home” away from Reddit for the foreseeable future.
Cheers, and well done on the instance, admins!
I have no way to prove this story since I burned my reddit account, but I might as well share: when I was checking out lemmy for the first time I got both a beehaw and a lemmy.ml account(both were a pain to wet up) and both had serious reliability issues(this was right after the API announcement). I was looking on reddit to try and find more info about other instances then I found a comment chain with a couple of guys, one said he had a server, the other said he had the domain itjust.works and was looking for a subdomain. I though about it for a moment, and in a moment of sheer smartassery I suggested sh.itjust.works. not long after I saw in the comment chain that they went with my suggestion and put the server up lmao. At that point I knew they were chill, so I made an account on here as soon as I saw that it had gone up, and it’s been rock solid ever since.
Edit: as @TheDude and others have pointed out, this happened here on the lemmy.ml instance, not reddit. It seems my memory is at fault lmao. I’m going to keep the rest of this comment unedited because its a good story anyways, but yea, I was wrong about where it happened. I’m glad I was wrong tho since i t means I still have that account, lol.
Not to throw you under the bus @this@sh.itjust.works but that’s not exactly how I recall it going down. Everything in your story is accurate with the exception of where the conversation happened. It happened on a Lemmy instance!. The conversation started on the lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead post. If you are indeed the same user who recommended the name you definitely get a token of recognition for coming up with it!
I replied to this comment with my alt and edited my original comment in that conversation but I don’t think lemmy.ml is working/federating correctly or something, oh well fake internet points aren’t that big a deal, I’m just happy to have helped, it makes this server feel more sentimental to me.
Hey look at that, its working! Now you can see I am @this@sh.itjust.works
I’ll chime in as a newly minted mod…. Well implemented enterprise infrastructure supported by a team of experienced infrastructure guys, mods, techies, etc.
It handles all the loads.
It handles all the loads.
I had an ex like that. It’s less impressive when it’s unexpected
Agreed. This server is just great quality. Makes me happy to be here. That + the name = magic.
Old reddit, how I’ve missed thee. I think I love Lemmy now. Can I join your memology 101 class?
Lemmy.ml bans you for criticizing the ccp and personally don’t like beehaw because admins decided to make subs and run them.
i didn’t realize that would be an issue for people. I’ve seen these instances more like the PHPBB forums from the days before the big services took over.
I thought the idea with lemmy was that the instances would tend to be grouped by topic/area so it makes sense that the people running a tech instance would also be involved in creating/running the tech communities on that instance. Some are more purpose-built than others tho.
mine is purpose built and I simply created the communities to match the flair we were using. Does seem like all the instances may need to make more docs on hows and whys of what they are and thier goals.
mine is pretty obv, big ol INTEGRATED AI at the top and pictures of robots!
even back then though, everyone had a shitpost lounge.
I basically joined because of the domainname. No waiting list was a plus. Finding out that the admins are nice and the infrastructure is top notch made me stay.
It has a funny name of course!
