Feddit UK

I feel the same way about feddit.nl, which is becoming the default for Dutch communities. It’s nice how the local feed is actually local in terms of geography and how it enables you to discover new communities which would otherwise be invisible in the all feed.

I like this too. Having spent a bit of time flitting around the fediverse, I believe that we're going to see local instances with local content, and the larger places with more global.

And honestly? I think it's quite a healthy way to do things.
If you live in a country of 5 million people, instead of being fractured across 5 big instances, someone can put all the local stuff in a local lemmy for local people (we'll have no trouble here). If the site admin has to pack it in one day, it's a far less daunting task to transplant, than a megasite deciding to suddenly go public.

Then when you want to do more global things, you go to a global/US instance.

Yeah, it's great. And even with the UK subs on other instances, i can still subscribe to them via the magic of federation!

The only thing is a lot of the communities have lots of subscribers but no posts. I do hope the creators of those communities aren't just squatting...

That's not really a good thing. If feddit.uk became overloaded and went down everything would be lost. Best to have a nice split with instances.

Yes, and I love it. I specifically sought out a UK instance for this very reason and am grateful to @tom@feddit.uk for setting it up.

Yeah, it's really great. I'm a bit sad that UKCasual has ended up somewhere else though...