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.

So, after being up and running for a week now I have implemented a few changes.

First change is a nice one: I set up an email server, so you can reset a password should you ever forget it. If you'd like to try for yourself, just fill in your email click the 'forgot password' link on the sign-in page! (Don't worry, nothing will actually be reset until you click the link in the email).

Second change has to do with the sign-up process. My assumption that people would use this instance in good faith was incorrect; today I observed a sudden increase in te amount of 'users' that had signed up. These users were created by a bot, and I'll be working to remove them again in the near future. I have enabled the captcha challenge to counter these automated sign-ups, and so far this appears to be working. I'd rather not enable mandatory email verification, so I hope that won't be necessary.

Finally, I made some under-the-hood changes to the reverse proxy to improve performance.

Version 18 of Lemmy should be rolling around soon, expect and update shortly after the release. Until then!

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!

Hi there!

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?

Instances

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.

Communities

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: [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]).

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!