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!

  • this@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    87·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • manifex@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    66·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • starrox@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    40·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Barbarian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    29·
    1 year ago

    Been here since almost the first day the server opened up: what makes this place different is our ruleset, admin and users.

    Ruleset: Very simple and basic. @TheDude doesn’t want to over-moderate, as far as I can tell. No need to tone-police or clamp down on what people can/can’t say, as long as it’s respectful. I really like that approach.

    The admin: From his posts and the sheer rock-solid stability of this server and laid-back attitude, the dude abides. I know I’m not the only one who joined because of this post. Networking experts, server admins, devops guys, if they’re anything like me, they look at that and think “Yup, this is where I wanna be”.

    Users: Early days yet, but so far the people here have been very laid-back, very nice, and helpful. Been trying to get all the newbies situated myself whenever I spot questions I can answer :) I’m hoping we can maintain this culture going forward.

    • God@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      As a dev, I joined a day before that post with much less criterion, then saw that post and felt very satisfied as you say. And they haven’t let me down with the consistent updates and a very well oiled system that has handled massive growth with minimal side effects.

    • scrollbars@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I also liked seeing that the networking comm was one of the early ones here. In general the local community list from a few days ago left me with a good vibe.

    • xylene@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I admittedly checked it out because of the domain, but I’ve gone all in because of the awesome, friendly users like yourself. Thanks for being so welcoming!

  • Frz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    This is the first instance that immediately accepted me when I tried to register. I tried other auto accept instances but my applications literally wouldn’t get through and I’d be stuck on the application page. Anyway, so far I find this site really neat and the loading speed is the best I’ve tried. Thank you for setting up this instance, admins. Hope the Fediverse grows.

    • MoistBalls@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      92·
      1 year ago

      Since you can subscribe to stuff even from other “instances”? Does it really matter which one you sign up on?

      It’s not like I’m Communist or Fascist so the major players should probably be in contact with each other anyways.

      • Frz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        Well, yes and no. For instance (no pun intended), the site for your home instance is a page you’re going to be landing on a lot, so you’d want one which loads smoothly and reliably for you, and this often depends on your instance’s server infrastructure. Some larger instances are already being overloaded. Another concern is probably stability and longevity, since the fate of your account is tied to the instance that hosts it, so you’d have to choose one you trust. And the last one is moderation: you don’t want to join an instance where the admin is known for being shady and randomly banning people or blocking lots of instances. That being said, so long you choose a reliable instance it doesn’t matter too much which one it is.

      • Difficult_Bit_1339@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        Instances can de-federate each other so you can’t see communities. Beehaw just de-federated us due to the large influx of users containing some people trolling their communities. The moderation tools are not great right now and so rather than dealing with the influx of trolls they de-federated this instance.

        So you can’t see Beehaw communities and their users cannot see your posts if you post on another instance’s community.

        This lets instances decide who they want to associate with and is a good thing for the long-term health of social media. You don’t want to be a part of instances that associate with terrorist instances or other shady things, de-federation is the tool to keep that from happening.

        In general, any instance is as good as any other but as time goes on there may be a few different ‘islands’ of instances that are functionally separate from each other and you’ll either choose one or use multiple accounts to swap between them.

        • Trekman10@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          But I subscribed to some Beehaw communities from this account, so should I make a Beehaw account or just hold out hope that they re-federate us?

          • Difficult_Bit_1339@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            They released an update yesterday that they reached out to speak with the sh.itjust.works admin team and they’re confident that they will be able to re-federate with us going forward once they’re able to get some more moderation tools to handle the larger volume.

            They didn’t provide a timeline however. It’s up to you if you want to wait for re-federation or make another account on Beehaw.

            Here’s the post: https://sh.itjust.works/post/147756

  • Disaster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    So far the atmosphere here seems far more cooperative and optimistic… like a certain other place circa 2008.

    I’m liking it, it’s a breath of fresh air and I’d forgotten that smell.

    @TheDude@sh.itjust.works - Keep commercial interests / astroturfing etc. off this place like our lives depend on it!

  • Sauce@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    Easy to remember url, haven’t had a single issue with acces or content. Not Canadian but I appreciate the general vibe of the people from the country that I’ve interacted and worked with. Great experience so far!

  • lee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    The name and the fact that it does just work. I registered and immediately had an account unlike some other instances.

  • baker@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    211·
    1 year ago

    As a Skyrim fanatic I’ve got a Pavlovian attraction to any joke on the theme of “It just works.” Then, as a PC tinkerer, reading this confirmed that this instance is probably a good fit. Happy with the vibe so far!

    • manitcor@lemmy.intai.techEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • ShadowAether@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • manitcor@lemmy.intai.techEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • ShadowAether@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            I don’t know if that’s really required, there will probably be a mix of specialized and general servers when things settle down which is probably fine. And after the feature for moving communities is done, then they could be grouped or redistributed.

            Salamander did the same as you https://mander.xyz/u/Sal and is listed as a mod on nearly all the communities. But I don’t really know if “pre-making” a bunch of communities is great for growth cuz when I started here, I found a bunch of machine learning ones but they all seemed dead. Like I’ve been posting stuff in the community I started just so there’s something there and people can get a feel for what it’s about.

            • manitcor@lemmy.intai.techEnglish
              4·
              1 year ago

              For me I am not as-concerned about growth, the sub started like the old reddit subs, as a link list I was sharing as part of my own research into the topic. If we had tags or flair I would prefer it frankly.

              My team and I use the list and wanted to share. Moving off reddit gave me excuse to take control of more of my internet presence and I have gobs of cheap compute so chill instances! Would be great if others wanted to participate but even on reddit it was mainly a quiet link list with a couple hundred subs.

              Have to say I’m really enjoying the speed of an instance fronted with cloudflare.

              • ShadowAether@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                True, it’s feasible to be an active mod when the communities are small but you’d pretty quickly need to bring in other mods if they start growing too big. It’s certainly nice to have smaller communities around for some topics but for some to function well, they do kind of need a certain amount of active users. I know there’s some concern about too few servers that have all the large communities as well.

                I think as more people are intrested in the project, more features will get added eventually.

                ? I though cloudflare disabled domain fronting?

                • manitcor@lemmy.intai.techEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Back before centralization I’d run communities up to 10k with less than 5 mods while doing physical events and meets (those I rounded up more help). You need more for bigger but really, if the fediverse was a bunch of smaller <10k communities power balance across the network would be better. Ideally you want a diverse network that avoids consolidation.

                  As for CF, thats pretty much the entire service. They now have a full zero trust setup too so you can put your entire backoffice infra in the loop if you want. I’ve served a number of sites in the 50k uniques range from this and simple static file servers for a number of apps including live data feeds. Had to bump to the $20 a month plan during a peak season but mostly i get by on the free stuff.

  • 5redie8@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    Also here after getting impatient with beehaw and hearing… questionable things about .ml. Was a lurker on reddit but trying to be active here. Thanks for hosting, admins!