Welcome to Casual UK. Feel fee to introduce yourself and have a chat.
How we all doing? How are we finding things on Feddit and Lemmy in general?
Have a natter.
It’s been really lovely here. This is honestly the first time in recent memory that I haven’t had to carefully curate everything to filter out the absolute shite. I’ve enjoyed having a slower paced place to keep up with news and just have a chat
Fully agree, its lovely not to have promoted posts everywhere too
12 years on Reddit - joined in the big Digg meltdown. Deleted both my Reddit accounts this morning. Feel better already. Lets hope the Fediverse really is the fix for big corp owning the online “common space” . .
Everything see.s to be going just fine - it feels a lot easier to get going here as you follow communities not people, so the content flows better.
Using the web version and Jerboa, testing Slide which is already looking promising.
As a reddit lurker it’s kinda hard to make the jump, maybe I’ll just have to actually participate.
Be the content you want to see in the world
I was reddit lurker. There is a lot less content here, which has it’s upsides and downsides.
I’ve enjoyed contributing here and have come to recognise names. It’s a bit more fulfilling than just consuming memes haha.
I’m liking it - nice vibe so far. I’m using the wefwef web app to browse, too, and it’s excellent if you’re used to something like Apollo.
Absolutely, I was skeptical of using wefwef, I’d prefer a dedicated app. But the look and feel are spot on.
Not wanting to start a rivalry or anything (really, choice is the great thing about the fediverse!) but while we’re small wouldn’t it be best to back [email protected] since it’s much more established?
I dont see any reason not to have both haha
The possibility for multiple communities is definitely not a drawback especially as the platform grows, but for now it’s good to have everyone aware of the communities that are out there.
I’m definitely staying subscribed to both (and the one on kbin as well).
Yes, we should raise awareness of related communitues, support each other, cross post, and cross pollinate.
If one dies off, thats fine. The best case scenario 2ould be two thriving communities.
I think thats going to lead to a poor user experience. If you’re subscribed to multiple, you’re going to be getting a ton of duplicate posts.
Potentially, yeah. I guess we’re all still trying to figure out how we want Lemmy to work. Probably a lot of people are loooking for a drop in replacement for Reddit and want it to work as close to that as possible.
Personally, I’m quite against centralisation, quite enjoying the smaller communities and slower pace, and love that we have a UK instance, with UK content by people from the UK, and I wish the other UK communities and users were all here with us. I’m not massive fan of how I feel American culture is eroding British culture, but thats a different essay 😂.
So cannibalising smaller communities and encouraging people towards the bigger ones on Lemmy.world isn’t my ideal. If the price to pay is some people are double-posting content across both (or all 3 or 4 Casual UKs) for maximum upvotes or something, and I have to scroll past that, that’s fine by me.
Didn’t realise one on kbin also. Cheers. I’m off to scout it now
Found it https://kbin.social/m/CasualUK find search full address for a kbin thread such a faff on
I concur 🙂
You would 😉
I am really interested in getting an app to access this site but really liking it so far.
Glad to see the sun has moved over here. Love you all
Jerboa on android is working well again for me, now the instance’s been updated.
Its now raining here, just beacuse you mentioned the sun of course
Unfortunately I am an iPhone user so not cool enough for Jerboa :(
Haha typical British weather!!! Hope it’s nice on Wednesday, I’ve got my citizenship ceremony.
Oh it’ll definately rain for that ha. Congratulations. Enjoy!
Try wefwef it’s a PWA but I’m using it atm and it’s pretty good, very similar to Apollo
I miss Apollo already, thanks for the suggestion!!
As well as Jerboa on Android, Ive also tried Liftoff, Thunder, and Slide for Lemmy.
Liftoff is the best I’ve found after a bit of customising.
