As yet another former Redditor trying to make sense of the decentralized model, there is something very comforting knowing "sh.itjust.works". Thanks for doing this.

Thanks et merci! I'm happy to call sh.itjust.works my new home 🎉

Just want to say, thanks for this instance and thanks for this type of transparency. I’ve never given Reddit money, but if you do get to the point of wanting/needing help with keeping this going, I’m ready.

I was involved with moderating a listserv of around 15k users in the early 90’s. Most of you won’t know what a listserv was or that the early 90’s was pre-web. I can only imagine the issues you’ll soon be dealing with.

Thank you!

Lol. At the time of writing this, sh.itjust.works doubled again to 2k users.

This shit be cray-cray yo.

It's crazy that there are so any users already, but not a surprise. This kind of transparency is exactly what a lot of us were looking for, and it's the recipe for a thriving community going forward.

The "no porn" thing may upset some folks, but it makes sense. Porn can be a moderation (and liability) minefield, especially opening the floodgates right away. It could be a net-benefit at some point in the future, but until then it's easy enough to create an account on another instance that wants to take the heat.

And for what it's worth regarding the financial side, donations feel like the way to go. With everything Reddit is doing right now, and other platforms have done in the past, "outside money" is becoming the harbinger of doom for online communities. Plenty of us would be happy to pitch in to keep it in house, especially when you post those sexy resource graphs that would show exactly where our money is going.

This is the only instance that instantly let me sign up.

Other instances sign up button at the end kept spinning and spinning forever to sign up lol. I got frustrated and gave up .

Hey Dude! I want to say that if your instance didnt exist I wouldnt have joined Lemmy. I tried to join on fmhy, and that was a disaster. So Im reallt grateful yours is up. Im not certain how lemmy works but I do have a homelab myself and I could host a a few TBs of data for you if it would help. My only complaint about your instance is that as a fellow Canadian, the no bigotry rule has been hard to follow as you haven't honoured our god given right to make fun of the french. :)

When you say no NSFW, does that also mean that we can not federate to such communities from our account as a whole (to be clear, I hope we are not federated to some unsavory ones of course)

Or just that we can not host them here?

1000 users already? Thats bonkers.

Hey, wanted to say thanks again for running an instance with a critical mass of users that's so easy to register on. This is the kind of thing people from the old site need if they're actually going to get on Lemmy. Big instances don't accept new users readily and small instances run into weird issues like needing to get the server to discover the "big" subs that people are interested in.

This one is at the size where the average user can just get in and go. You might say... shit just works.

Hi everyone. Reddit refugee here. I’m not tech-savvy so I’m posting because I’m a noob and testing this out.

Hey, so it's my first comment on Lemmy, and I picked this instance specifically because I liked the silly name I'm still figuring out how everything works, but it doesn't seem that hard to understand.

Just to clarify, individual accounts will be in trouble if they subscribe to communities on other servers that break the rules? Or are they blocked by default?

I guess saying thank you for hosting is as worthy of a first comment as can be.

I still don't get every aspect of Lemmy, nor do I think it will ever rival what Reddit was and still could be, but I gotta admit that I like the small community vibe that exists now.

Excited to see what the future holds for Lemmy.

Just commenting here to say thank you for running an instance. I have found the experience of using this instance to be great. I think having instances like this one to accept new reddit users is fantastic and what Lemmy needs to be the successor to reddit. I have some technical expertise so I'm considering starting my own instances, to pitch in and help with the influx of new users. I don't know if I will realize this idea and if I do if it'll be open to other users other than myself, but if I don't, I am happy I have my account here, it's a really good instance.

Thanks again!

Currently discovering Lemmy and had to choose a home. The name and the image helped my choice. Thank you for what you are doing right now !

Just to understand correctly we can't subscribe to communities on other instances that break the rules of this instance?

I gotta say, it's been less than 20 minutes since I joined here, and it feels... refreshing. Tried signing up on some other instances, but they don't respond, seemingly due to overloading. A decentralized network is gaining steam and I couldn't be happier. Thanks for firing up this instance, and cheers!

Reposting an earlier comment here for better visibility to help educate newcomers.

I had no idea how this whole fediverse thing worked until I read this comment. https://lemmy.world/comment/20357

Thanks for hosting this instance! Redditfugee making my first post. Keep up the great work!

If storage may become a problem, should users upload elsewhere and put links?

Thanks for such an awesome instance that to me personally rivals the main lemmy.ml. I will most likely continue to use this instance as my main account, and will definitely consider donating in the future, whenever you open that up.

Our world is already in shambles, we don't need another place for all of us to fight against one another.

This, right here, completely agree ☝️.

No pornography

OK, but can you suggest any other NSFW friendly instances?

One more question. I accidentally blocked a community on my other account. How can I unblock it? It doesn't appear on the search cuz it's blocked 🤷.

Thank you very much for setting up this instance. I'm honored to be one of the first folks to join up. Let me know if there's anything we can do to help.

It's very gracious of you to stand up this instance with your own resources. I'm used to the idea of donating to my fedi home instances, and other fediverse regulars are probably the same way. Just give us the word if you do need donations down the road (ie. for storage upgrades, etc).

Hello everyone, coming here from reddit. Hopefully the federated concept catches on because I'm tired of the cycle of cool things becoming crappier over time to please investors or make a quick buck. I had mostly stopped interacting with mainstream reddit years ago due to the deteriorating quality of posts and discussions.

Some communities I'd love to see over here include: askhistorians, askscience, digitalart, gadgets, gamedev, hardware, indiegaming, mycology, nutrition, the 'learn' subreddits (ie learnmath, learnprogramming, ect), philosophy, pixelart, proceduralgeneration, and stopdrinking.

If anyone knows any good communities to 'subscribe' to that seem like they'd fit the kind of thing I'm looking for I'd be happy to hear them.

Hopefully joining a server of self described networking enthusiast makes this transition as seamless as could reasonably be expected lol. I like the rules here too. A very solid foundation to start on.

Hi y'all, just got here to have a feel for Lemmy. So far so good. Have been keeping an eye on Lemmy for a while, but the recent dumpster fire that reddit is becoming pushed me to register. Guidelines are clear and I hope the influx of new users won't be to hard on the admins. I'll keep an eye our for a donation option to help out.

I'm thinking of spinning up an instance for my community, and would love more info on how many users you have vs server capacity vs monthly cost.

Nice, I appreciate the communication and openness.