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@rammy.siteHello, it seems like there's a group that wants to home their content on this instance in order to reach instances that were defederated from their previous instance, but as response other instances are starting to defederate (lemmynsfw.com), or are talking about defederating.
At about the same time this group started making communities on this instance all existing posts on the instance started receiving about 4 downvotes, which is now up to 7, but I'm not sure if this is the work of this group. Is the admin aware of this?
I wasn't able to access this instance for the past couple of days. Was there an outage, or was it a problem with my local setup?
Lemmy instances without it get flooded with spam accounts and will cause you to be defederated by a lot of the big instances.
Also please ensure you handle reports about bigots. I already has to ban a troll from your instance.
Love the Sheep.
Rammy, is he? Stand up chap, he is.
This is still a young instance, so there might be a snafu here and there. If you have any issues with this instance, please report them here. Do you have an idea to make this place better? Please share as well!
So, you decided to put some of your eggs in a different basket, started looking beyond Reddit and joined a Lemmy instance. Great! Thank you for choosing Rammy, by the way. But.. Now what?
You can think of an instance as the server on which your stuff is hosted. Other instances host other people's stuff. Thanks to federation, however, it doesn't really matter what instance you are on. You can view and interact with content on any other instance, as long as they are federated. This instance is federated with most others at this point.
You're probably familiar with Reddit's Subreddits. Lemmy has a similar construct, called Communities. These communities reside on an instance. That doesn't mean you can't view, subscribe to and contribute to communities on other instances, though! Once again trough the power of Federation, you can search for any community on federated servers.
As of right now communities can be hard to find, but the good folks over at feddit.de made a community browser to help you find communities you might be interested in. Found one? Fantastic! If it's not in the list of communities over here at Rammy, you can add it yourself. Just click on the search icon in the top-right, and search for !{community}@{instance}
. For example, if you are interested in the Gaming community over at the Beehaw.org instance, search for: !gaming@beehaw.org
.
Lemmy is still a bit rough around the edges, and subscribing can be a bit wonky. If your subscribe status is stuck on 'Subscribe Pending', try to un- and resubscribe. If that doesn't work, the only thing to do is wait. Some instances (lemmy.ml is a prime example) are having issues, and there is not much to do from our end. Just resubscribe from time to time. Also note that some content will only appear after at least one user from this instance has subscribed to a community; if you see posts but no comments and upvotes, you should try to subscribe to the community in question.
I set up this instance in the hopes of taking the load off of the big guys. It's still a bit under construction (and empty) here, but if you choose to register everything seems to work well enough. And of course, content on other instances is available to you through the power of federation.
Should you need any help whatsoever, feel free to shoot me a message!