Feel welcome to use this post for testing purposes, feedback on the instance and to say hi!

Since the playground model wasn’t really that good (it prevents users from making things their home), I’ve decided not to announce this instance to be in playground/testing mode. Instead, i’ll simply try to make it work and hope that it won’t become an administrative nightmare.

However – things are looking quite good so far.

In the background i am currently trying to determine whether the current location is powerful enough midterm, if not, there will be a quick and quiet maintenance to move the thing to a more fitting place (looking at the potential upcoming wave from Reddit). Also there are some smaller things in the background still being worked on, but they shouldn’t affect users.

tl;dr have fun, if everything goes well, this will be a permanent place for people to enjoy – i hope. 🚀

Also check out https://join-lemmy.org/apps for apps and stuff.

  • feytorEnglish
    3·
    3 years ago

    Hey everyone, I’m just looking at Lemmy for the first time. I’m still slightly overwhelmed 😁 But I had that at the beginning with Mastodon too. 😅

    • MilanOPMAEnglish
      2·
      3 years ago

      welcome! yes, first impression can be overwhelming but it usually doesn’t take long to get used to it. i even have the thing open in my phones browser sometimes which i rarely do with any site. :)

  • GVascoEnglish
    3·
    3 years ago

    Thanks for hosting this! Looking forward to participate in the communities here.

  • leftascenterEnglish
    3·
    3 years ago

    Just Hi everyone.

    I arrived by the flight from reddit. It was all right, no major turbulences, landing was smooth. And for once security didn’t make me loose 3h at the airport.

    • MilanOPMAEnglish
      3·
      3 years ago

      Wonderful! Have a nice stay!

  • thomholwerdaEnglish
    3·
    3 years ago

    Lemmy definitely has a bit of a learning curve compared to reddit, but hey, nothing is free. Interested in seeing how this goes!

    • nnzEnglish
      1·
      3 years ago

      I’m curious about what #lemmy is or is heading at, and I don’t know reddit. We’ll see…

  • BeanDevEnglish
    2·
    3 years ago

    Since Reddit is currently performing the Twitter-Musk stunt and wants to have the API for third-party apps gold-plated, I have to give Lemmy a try.

    Thanks to @milan@lemmy.ml for the opportunity.

  • lukx
    2·
    2 years ago

    Thank you for this instance Milan !

  • UpsKaputtEnglish
    2·
    3 years ago

    Thanks Milan for setting this up! Works now from Jerboa for me :)

  • morrowindEnglish
    2·
    3 years ago

    Hey everyone, I’ve been on lemmy for a while if anyone has any questions, just made an account here since, well it exists, and also lemmy.ml is having trouble with the influx of new users.

  • EinPhysikerEnglish
    2·
    3 years ago

    Hi, I’m a first time lemmy user. It’s amazing what you set up at tchncs.de and I must say I’m a bit overwhelmed by all the choices. Thank you.

    • Wen AstarEnglish
      1·
      3 years ago

      Same here. This is a whole different world.

  • rsteinEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    Strange thing: I can login on the iPad on Safari, but not with Firefox browser. No error message, just a rotating wheel.

    • ch1ckenEnglish
      1·
      3 years ago

      change your password to a <60 character password and try again, for some reason this bug only affects firefox as well

      • rsteinEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        My password is long, but not in that region.

    • MilanOPMAEnglish
      1·
      3 years ago

      strange indeed as i am on Firefox as well…

      • ch1ckenEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        hi, i think i found the cause, firefox login doesn’t work for me when having a long password (tried 128 chars) as the login button just infinitely loads, but for whatever reason on other browsers (tried brave) i’m able to login fine with the same credentials. When changing my password to a <60 character password i was able to login via firefox.

        I was able to reproduce this both on desktop, and mobile (android), as well as on multiple lemmy instances and not just tchncs

      • rsteinEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        Firefox from Debian notebook works well. Forget it, Firefox on the iPad is a cludge…

        • olkolEnglish
          1·
          3 years ago

          I got the rotating wheel, when I appended ‘@discuss.tchncs.de’ to the username.(Firefox Debian) Perhaps a hint to ommit the server part when entering the user name could be useful.

          • rsteinEnglish
            1·
            3 years ago

            No, still doesn’t work, neither with username nor email.

        • MilanOPMAEnglish
          1·
          3 years ago

          or maybe it needed a refresh 🤷

          • rsteinEnglish
            1·
            3 years ago

            No, iPad restarded, still no cigar.

  • LeonieEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    Thanks for having me here. It’s quite unfortunate what happened to lemmy.ml and I don’t want this instance to face the same fate. I’ve been a tchncs user since the golden LSW days and had my first ever “fediverse” (diaspora) account and my first Mastodon account on here. tchncs really is at the forefront whenever it comes to federated technologies. Milan, you’ll get a fair share of donations soon, I don’t want this place to go away.

    Have a test monkey!

    Monkey behind a test image

    • MilanOPMAEnglish
      4·
      3 years ago

      Thanks for your kind words – Mastodon and Matrix survived, as of now i am confident that this instance will as well … i hope … 😅