TL;DR, Feddit.UK is down, we're working on making a fun replacement!
A number of days ago, feddit.uk had kicked the bucket.
The community on there had noticed months ago that the owner was inactive. This was around September (Going off of memory). So they arranged to set up a new community run by the same feddit.uk admins (except the owner, the only one who had host access) which would replace it. However, on the weekend as Quackhouse was going to be launched, the owner responded to an email and made two users admins. Emperor and GreatAlbatross. However, they did not have access to the console, just lemmy adminship. Ever since, the owner has been AWOL. The community were too afraid to go back to setting up Quackhouse incase the owner showed up again.
Unfortunately, that wariness and being afraid led to the worst case scenario happening - Feddit.uk has dropped offline. We believe the instance has reached some form of file size cap. It was basically an aeroplane flying with dead pilots before then. And it appears that aeroplane has crashed.
If you are from the feddit.uk refugee base, please join the new community whenever it is ready. Do not sign up now. We are busy and still setting up and don't want an influx of new users just yet.
For now, sit tight. I'll update this post whenever it's up and running and ready for sign-ups. I am not posting the name for now so we don't get overrun with sign ups. But we would love to invite you back to our community when it's set up.
The new community will have it's own unique identity that doesn't have to piggyback off of Lemmy and Reddit for it's name. But it will still aim to be the main UK lemmy instance that feddit.uk was. By all means, it will be a full lemmy instance, still federated, etc. It should be the same experience as feddit.uk. But we actually do have fun plans to create a nice sense of identity with that instance if all goes well! I will warn you, it does have a silly name, but that was the name that was decided upon.
We look forward to having new members. All are welcome, whether or not you were from Feddit.UK or not. We will have the theme be a UK-based lemmy instance.
I'll try and remember to update this post when we are ready.
~20CX12
Imagine, if you will, being so boring that you have to pick fights about how people word things.
Listen, he said "refugees" and maybe that wasn't the right word. But you know what? Both you and I both understood what they meant by that.
The point of language... any language is to portray ideas between different people. In that context, OP did a fantastic job of that. we understood. Job done.
Instead of providing any discussion of any value or merit, and apparently having the personality of wet cardboard, you chose to critique his word choice on how to describe those displaced by the issue.
Nobody was confused. Nobody is going to conflate the struggles of actual refugees with the inconvenience of feddit being unavailable. There's no confusion here. Fighting to reclaim the word "refugee" when nobody gives any shits about it (except you apparently), is certainly not going to win you any awards. I promise that refugees care less about what they're called, or who appropriates the term for inappropriate uses, and they care more about migrating to a country where they will be safe from harm.
Nobody is standing up and being proud of their refugee status, demanding that we treat their term with more respect.... I know refugees, and I would think that all of them would have preferred to not have been forced to become one. Nobody chooses to be a refugee, you do it because you're scared for your life. Scared of your neighbors, government, and national authorities. Nobody wants that.
I know that refugees are proud of the fact that they now live in a place that's not like the place that they left, but I have yet to meet one that's proud that they had to flee.
I'm pretty sure they couldn't possibly give less of a shit about someone misusing the term "refugee".
Lost me at the first line, I'm not even reading that.
I'm sorry but this is a really offensive comment for dyslexics. Don't you know how lucky you are to be able to read?!? Oh my god so angry I'm shaking rn
👆 You
This comment made me smile, thanks!
The irony is that a dyslexic person shouldn't be offended at someone else's ability to read.
Yet refugees like me, my parents, friends and family have a right to be offended about the misuse of the word refugee.
Ah yes, pretending to be offended on behalf of a minority to gain attention, then when called out on it, pretending to be the minority themselves to gain favour
Your "refugee" parents simply didn't give you enough attention when you were a kid, huh? 🤣
You don't even know me?