Feddit UK

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.

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.

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.

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...

I am really happy to see this, and props to Tom for making it happen.

I have some minor anxiety down the line about Reddit claiming the URL due to the similarity with their trademark. Am I being paranoid?

Yeah I really like this, it's nice to be in UK specific communities when I'm set to local and see the rest of the Fediverse on subscribed and all.

Personally I have an account here at Feddit UK for UK subs, and separate accounts on other servers on Kbin.Social I'm using for non-UK/generic content.

I'm tempted to subscribe to broader Fediverse content from Feddit UK but then that data would come onto this server (backend). I'm not sure whats the best approach - use one instance to browse the whole Fediverse or multiple accounts on different instances to compartmentalise a little?

It is nice just seeing UK content when I'm on Feddit UK. I even have a custom Lemmy theme (from https://github.com/2xx04/lemmy-ui-themes/) which I changed the background background to a UK Pic so it is instantly seperate from other lemmy instances. The Lemmy UI Themes are easy to install by end users in their browser (use Stylus extension) and can also be installed and adpated by server owners to theme their server.

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