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
    20·
    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.

  • lee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

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

  • 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!

  • SeaOfTrees@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for hosting this instance. Apart from the great name and the chill environment, this is the first instance that let me sign in without issues or infinitely spinning buttons. Also it looks like this one has better server capacity compared to other instances!

    I was mainly a lurker in reddit, but will try to be more active here.

    • gibbedygook@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I had the same experience. I almost didn’t make it onto the lemmyverse - I tried lemmy.ml and beehaw, didn’t get let in / tried to log in too soon after I applied, then forgot about it.

      Any site with an application process is going to turn away a lot of people.

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

        Hard agree, I started with beehaw, saw that it has an application process, and I didn’t even bother.

        The fact that they defederated from this instance says a lot about them too.

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

          The fact that they defederated from this instance says a lot about them too.

          Exactly. I’ve got an account there, but i view it as basically useless now.

          They’re way too uptight about a lot of shit to be an open forum of discussion.

  • manifex@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    14·
    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.

  • newformulared@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    After 30 minutes of floundering about, I think I’m finally starting to get how lemmy works. I really hope this takes off so here I am contributing to the noise :D

    • RamenEater@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Do you know how to subscribe to other communities from different instances?

      I want to sub to the selfhosted community in another instance but not sure how to.

      Edit: I figured it out, when viewing the list of communities, you have to select the option that says “all” instead of the “local” option.

    • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      The more the merrier. Content production and interaction makes a community grow and thrive! Welcome, and best wishes

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

      I’m on day… 3. I just signed up for a couple more instances to try to find my y ‘home’… This place seems chill…

  • Frz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    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
      41·
      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
        3·
        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
          1·
          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
            01·
            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

  • baker@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    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!

  • Disaster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    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!

  • starrox@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    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.