I was invited to sign up this morning.

I attempted to do so. When I try to sign in I see an "unverified email" toast error. I haven't received an email asking me to verify.

Sup lemmings!

As you probably noticed, this instance was dead for the majority of last week. Sorry about that. An update to the latest version using the official method was less than successful, and the documentation less than informative.

At any rate, the site is back up now, though I’d expect slowdowns over the next day or so as all that backlog from the fediverse filters in.

Sorry about that!

Currently 👀 an upstream issue that’s preventing non-Lemmy instances from federating with us; this is preventing interacting with Kbin among other things. Hoping this will get merged in soon, otherwise I’ll probably have to monkey-patch our instance to get this working. Kbin has a large user base and so the ability for us to subscribe and participate in their communities (“magazines” in their parlance) is important to me.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3354

It’s a free progressive web app; visit https://wefwef.app in Safari, go to the action/share sheet and click Add To Home Screen. You’ll find it’s a near carbon copy of Apollo was on iOS. To use it with your account here, just go to Login and where it asks you which server, scroll down to select Other and use “lemmy.federate.cc” as the server. Voila!

Don’t forget to browse by “Subscribed” or “All” instead of “Local”. If you want to search for or subscribe to a remote community, you can search either for the full URL of the remote community inside our search box, or search with the syntax !community@server.com

I've set up email at the federate.cc domain today, backed by Migadu, a lightweight privacy-focused email service out of Switzerland.

If any members would like an e-mail at this domain, either send me an email (sparky@), or DM me here on Lemmy. They're not created automatically by default, as I have to manually go do something adminny to make them happen.

But upon request, an email @federate.cc is open to anyone who wants one.

Some caveats:

• This isn't Gmail, we're poor. Assume you have something like 500mb-1gb of storage in your account. Not a good place for large attachments, etc.
• You're subject to the same code of conduct as our instances, e.g., if you start sending spam or harassment, you'll get shut down.

Federate.cc is live with our first Fediverse service, Lemmy! While I'm the sole user on this instance for the moment, I hope to eventually attract a small community to join me here.

Copy/pasting from the main website:

federate.cc is a collection of fediverse services operated on behalf of its members with limited commercial interest

we are funded entirely through membership dues

there is no advertising, data selling, or any such corporate baloney here

we host instances of popular distributed, federated software platforms, providing a carefully-tended "home instance" / "homeserver" across several major platforms

we intend for our services to be a home for upstanding netizens, interested in participating respectfully and in good faith across the fediverse

in general, everyone is welcome, though we reserve the right to refuse membership to anyone suspected of prior misbehaviour across the fediverse

we want to encourage quality over quantity and prefer a small, tight-knit community of active contributors; there is no aspiration to become a large public instance