Hey guys. After discussing with our lovely sysadmin @[email protected] earlier, I thought it's time we gathered to discuss our little community here. feddit.nl has been through some tough times, but it's still up and strong! Let's look into helping it solidify even more.
How have you been liking Lemmy so far? Would you like it if feddit.nl offered different interfaces like Photon and Voyager? Isn't the trending communities bot really cool? ;)
Please feel free to let us know what we can do to help this instance thrive, and maybe tell us a little about your day, heh heh heh.
And of course, creating content, as well as sharing with others you know, goes a long way!
Donate to feddit.nl: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tedvdb
I created an account here and a couple of communities, but it was sort of by accident that I'm here. At the time, join-lemmy referred to the Awesome Instances GitHub page, and that recommended feddit.nl, and said don't overthink it, so I didn't. If I had thought about it more, I would've joined up to feddit.uk I suppose (although that's the instance that people are now concerned about now, ironically enough).
But given the .nl domain, maybe feddit.nl should just be a place for people to talk to one another in languages (other than English) that are popular in The Netherlands. For the focus to generally be specific to one location, and for Communities that other instances in the Fediverse don't provide. (sort of like what I imagine feddit.it does for the people of Italy).
I'm fairly active on Lemmy (from accounts on endlesstalk.org and lemmy.world), but the content I really want to create is animated in some form - as a gif or a webp file. My efforts in this are being stymied by Lemmy, as it seems utterly determined to wreck them, either by half-arsing an unwanted transcode, or re-compressing something that's already compressed. So, similar to others in this thread, but for completely different reasons, I'm waiting for the software itself to mature before I can fully unleash my genius on the world.
As for frontends, I've started using photon at lemmy.world. It's really nice, especially for the aforementioned animated stuff. I've even started using phtn.app for browsing on my phone too. (There's also Tesseract, a fork of photon that I've only seen at db0 and dubvee.org, but would like to play with.)
Gotta love Photon! We gave photon another shortcut: https://p.lemmy.world for the super lazy.