Feddit.uk went down for a bit and no one knows why. We’re seemingly back now though.

There is only one fully privileged admin (the original owner), and they’re not super present. We have two other admins but they’re restricted in what they can do (don’t have access to the server itself I think?, can’t upgrade).

A couple of users are setting up a new UK lemmy instance in response to this situation. One of those users is very keen for it to be a replacement, hence the posts. Not everyone is on board with it though. It’s been put in hold while they iron some things out.

It’s not an “official” replacement for feddit.uk in that sense, but it’s another UK instance.

I’ve seen them called digital gardens, because they like something you maintain and let grow with no specific purpose.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/03/1007716/digital-gardens-let-you-cultivate-your-own-little-bit-of-the-internet/

Whomp whomp… :(

But what’s the joke?

Oh no. That’s a real shame. I’ve been using Bandcamp where I can over Spotify for years. Fingers crossed this isn’t the beginning on Band camp going downhill

Oh no. What happened with Bandcamp?

Better how?

Yeah, it’s an excellent fallback due to its ubiquity.

1% if the population is a lot of people, and encryption is becoming more and more important to “normal” people, otherwise WhatsApp etc. wouldn’t be making such a big deal about it as a feature.

Fair points, but it’s also completely insecure, which is hugely important to a lot of people.

Upvoted using Arctius. I’ve been using it since 0.0.1 and very happy with it and the dev.

Check out AnyType for notes. I’m really surprised by it so far. It seems really powerful and I’m still working out what can be done.

I think its going to replace notes, task list, and become like a local pintrest for me.

Why do so many website fail at explaining what they represent. I didn’t really get what this was because it focused on its technology, not what it was aiming to achieve.

I installed it anyway, as I’m looking into synced Notes apps and that’s what it seemed to do and this thing is looking pretty powerful actually. It might replace more than just Notes.

I have google camera with network permission revoked. Ive tried the stock Graphene one and OpenCamera and they just dont cut it for me.

Storage Scopes doesn’t seem to work for it for me.

Now I think about it, I can’t remember where I got the APK, but I havent updated it since…

I think there are people coming from Reddit that miss the mindless scrolling content that only hundreds of thousands of users can create.

I did this all the time on Reddit, hours and hours of lurking, looking at memes and reading bullshit stories. Just endless content.

I don’t have that here, and I like it. I do miss it, but I’m not desperate for Lemmy to drop in and replace it.

What’s wrong with it being a niche thing. It’s been around for long enough being just that.

I’m not saying Lemmy can’t be more, just there’s nothing “wrong” with it as is. I jdon’t like people offering up the opinions I mentioned above.

Yeah, I never get all these comments saying “if Lemmy wants to get big” it needs to do X (probably some Reddit feature), and " if Lemmy wants to succeed" if needs to do Y (some niche thing most people dont need).

Like, it’s already successful doing exactly what it was intended for.

Possibly Lemmy is a lot of peoples first foray into FOSS software, and being the biggest and best, and profits go brrr isn’t the aim.

Capitalism is a hell of a drug when it’s all you’ve known.

Isn’t that the problem being stated in the OP haha.