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!

Here from Reddit. Thank you for hosting this.

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!

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.

Like the server and community hoping Lemmy and this community will grow strong.

Is there any sort of new user help community that anyone knows about? Every time I try to comment on anything the ‘Post’ button just keeps spinning.

Edit: judging by the fact it works here I’m guessing it has something to do with trying to comment in communities on other servers/instances?

Hi Tom 👋

Hi im glad to be here have just deleted my reddit account lol

@tom Hi, great to see you set up an instance for UK. I am just testing how this works with mastodon or if i need to make a separate account.

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.

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!

Thank you for creating this! :)

Thanks for setting this up, thought I'd check it out as i'm kinda sick of the BS over at reddit.

Sup, hope this places can survive any potential big loads from /r/unitedkingdom

Hi, Hope Lemmy takes off, seen a few centralized reddit clones fail.

viable alternatives are always welcome.

Hi Tom

Howdy! This is kind of rad - any recommendations for iOS browsing apps?

I'm can't seem to login to Jerboa. I'm entering Feddit.uk as the instance. Anyone else had this issue?

Hi @tom.

I noticed non of feddit.uk local communities seem to show up in browse.feddit.de

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.