For me it’s been the stability of our sever.
It’s run by a private person on nothing but goodwill and interest, which I was afraid would only last a few months. He (and the other admins) have done an incredible job keeping things running smoothly and with a very level headed approach to content filtering and general rules.
You all deserve a massive round of applause from all of us benefitting with zero work.
I'm mostly thankful that we were able to retain so many users for a full year. I think we only ever peaked somewhere around 4k monthly users in the late summer, and have been maintaining around 2.5k active users for several months now. There were a bunch of people that left in the first few months but I'm glad that we still have many familiar faces who stuck around.
I expect the best is yet to come for us, but I'm already very proud of what we've built here. Way too many highlights to mention, but one that comes to mind was when our very own @kersploosh@sh.itjust.works singlehandedly halved the bot population on Lemmy.
Didn't remember that episode, that was impressive
Beans.
Jeans.
But no aero machines.
Beans, jeans, and Star Trek memes.
There's the real joke I couldn't find
Paula Deens.
Don't forget the Beef Stroganoff!
My highlights were watching communities slowly blossom and to see more activity in the comment sections. More variety, more interaction, more content. Getting to recognize users, learning new things and trying to share a thing or two as well. It's been a great experience overall, and I hope to see you all around on the best server ever next year as well!
❤️
I finally blocked enough communities to not see big tittied anime or Linux every 2 posts .
This is the way
Honestly when I first joined, I was thinking it was gonna be a week or two at most before I'd go back to Reddit. But I've been impressed by the community and have grown to love it. It feels so nice to be able to comment on a major news story and actually have people respond, instead of just having your comment get lost in a sea of thousands of reddit comments.
Ah yea, the "you missed the first 20 minutes window of this post so your comment will be lost into the void".
Don't miss it one bit.
Haha yeah and for breaking news you could just forget about it. I can't imagine being in a reddit thread when Trump was found guilty the other day. It'd be like shouting at a thunderstorm."
I'm very happy here. I joined during the reddit blackouts, and honestly I picked it because of the name and was comforted by The Dude and later his deputies' soft hand on the community.
I mostly browse /all, but I do spend time on /local to see my neighbors and it's fun to watch the communities grow!
Same, I like it here a lot. Kersploosh is great and listens before he decides. I really like the non-addictive quality of Lemmy in general, but specifically this instance. I check it in the morning and sometimes check a little later in the day, it's nice.
The absence of an algorithm, funnily enough, encourages me to spend more time here. Reddit, Facebook, Insta, etc., all utilize algorithms that feel as if someone is attempting to actively distract and sell you something and that quickly becomes stressful. So many distractions vying for mindspace saturates my attention and makes me, personally, feel less human.
Thank you to all of our lovely admins! It wouldn’t be possible without you!
A highlight for me was having my favorite weirdos cross over gradually and establish some hovels nearby. Example: c/noncredibledefense ::🦹♀️ ya freaks
J'ai rejoins Lemmy le 1 juillet 2023, ce qui veut dire que le mois prochain ça fera 1 an que je suis sur cette plateforme. Au début j'etait sur l'instance feddit.de, mais depuis quelques temps l'instance est devenu quasi-inutilisable(impossibilité de l'utiliser sur pc, accessible uniquement sur mobile). Après 8 mois d'utilisation j'ai decidé de migrer vers sh.itjust.works étant donné que c'etait une instance francophone.
Its been great, thanks for being willing to navigate all the federation drama and day to day admin work. Here's to another year :)
I'm truly grateful to be a member of sh.itjust.works. Thank you so much for this service.
Bon anniversaire et merci beaucoup!
I like the funny shenanigans like the whole no poop and beans stuff. Those little things make it a bit interesting.
Thanks for having me and keeping the place nice. Here's to more years to come.
I wonder if that man was able to go without peeing for that amount of time. What food and drink did he consume. Did our suggestions help? Also, separate question, why? Seriously, why. Why couldn't he tell us why either.
That's my favourite moment. Early on but it sticks in my head.
Pooping*
I don't interact a whole lot, but when i do i've been having a pretty nice experience, thanks there everyone!
And yeah, happy cake day sh.itjust.works!
I'm here to express my satisfaction and hope for a long standing instance.
Nice, another June 7th anniversary!
FYI we are currently the most senior users that I'm aware of, besides TheDude. There must be some June 6th accounts too, but I don't remember encountering any. Thank you for your long and distinguished service as a SJW contributor 🫡
There's even a few users from June 5th.
Wow, good finds. Congratulations to those two, the real OGs. It's amazing how I've been an admin here for so long and a very active user before that, yet I still regularly encounter old, active accounts that I don't recognize at all.
Despite appearing miniscule compared to reddit's hundreds of millions, the 50k Lemmy userbase is still kinda massive when you really think about it.
🥳
I don't have one particular highlight, I just love being here. Good admins, good people, good discussions, people are pretty chill. What's not to like?
sh.it.heads 4 lyfe, yo!
I'm not sure when exactly my cake day is but have been hanging out with you shitters a while and truly dig it here.
So much of the community interaction and openness to real dialog and sharing reminds me of the internet I grew up on. Thanks to each and every one of you.
Favorite moment: following discussions on the element channel and actively having a voice in defederating from communities that didn't align with the goals of our community. Being empowered to shape what this place was gonna look like really drew me in and made me want to keep coming back!
Cheers y'all!
Vulgar
Bon anniversaire truc merdique qui marche, putain, un an. Sur reddit ce serait un changement de compte, ici, on est encore trop petit pour que ça fasse le moindre sens, on me reconnaitrait aussitôt. (Après, il est pas dit qu'à un moment je ne migre pas)
C'est cool que ça ait pris, c'est pas bien remplis, mais il y a un peu d'activité, en tout cas suffisamment pour y poster de temps en temps
Enjoying the stability of sh.itjust.works after the initial migration and like being part of a Canadian instance.
Nothing too eventful to highlight specifically, but being here has been nice, so there's that.
Hopefully this will last! To infinity and beyond!
Edit: Shit, now that you mention it, this account's about to have its cake day as well! Didn't realize I've been here pretty much from the beginning!
En presque 1 an je crois que c'est mon premier commentaire. Des fois je fais des +1. Mais réellement, je suis un lecteur et à date le contenu est pas mal et bien modéré. Pour le "Casual" browsing, je n'utilise plus que Lemmy, j'ai supprimé mon compte Reddit. Merci et bonne continuation!
Kersploosh, mon pomplemousse merveilleuse.
Things were great when I first joined Lemmy a year ago -- it truly felt like a community -- but then unfortunately some of the same toxic Reddit-like behavior started to creep in.
I've since learned that if I avoid the two largest Lemmy instances, plus some of the more sketchy ones like Beehaw and Hexbear, for the most part it's good.
Big thanks to the instance admins on here for giving me a home away from Reddit over the past year!
Highlights? Watching my communities grow from nothing to fairly active over the past year.
Lemmy as a whole has also grown and stabilized nicely. I went from browsing /all out of boredom to having difficulty keeping up with the posts in my subscribed feed.
Hear's to the next year!
Time flies 🥳 hopefully this community continues to grow into something beautiful!
Home of the sh.itjust.works instance.
