I really want to see a data viz of whether/how much users are spreading out. Anyone got the data on user counts over time by instance?

No I mean there’s some weird bug in Memmy. My second account went down and I had to reinstall Memmy to access my first one

Until that other one goes down, then memmy really struggles to let you in. At least that’s what happened to me.

Have you figured out an efficient way to mirror your community subscription list between them?

It’s true that several instances (the ones hosted in Mali?) closed, but I think you’re premature in saying the smaller instances are disappearing, Lemmy.one included.

Sure, they’re bound to crash or go down for maintenance from time to time, but that doesn’t mean they’re finished. So far my experience has been that if you give it a couple days they’ll be back. Keep in mind these are shoestring operations and sometimes seeing major influxes of users.

I think they basically have built up a tolerance to those bacteria. They probably got sick at some point and survived.

Linked in a comment within that post, this appears to be an extremely comprehensive list:

https://kbin.social/m/specialized_instances/t/186667/Big-list-of-specialized-instances

Really love Mander

That’s not the only way. Smaller instances will have very different All feeds because All is just an aggregate of your Instance-mates.

Charles de Gaulle Airport. Nothing more to be said

You’re going to have to accept that it’ll hurt for a long time. Give yourself some grace and let yourself be heartbroken for as long as you need. It sucks, but you’ll snap out of it eventually.

Two things that will probably help:

1. Hang out with people you like
2. Do things that make you proud of what you did that day

It’s easy to skip into a hole and wallow there. While you have to let yourself grieve, you also have to put in the work to have a constructive life. Treat it as a responsibility to get up and do something each day.

Yeah the All feed shows you the communities that you and all your instance-mates follow, but not every community in existence.

I think a good strategy is to start on Lemmy.World until you discover a solid list of communities you want to follow. Then switch to a smaller instance that aligns with your interests and bring all your subscriptions with you.

If you start on a small instance you’ll have to do a lot more work to discover communities, since they mostly won’t appear in your All feed. Plus, you’re doing that small instance a favor by bringing interesting communities to their All feed.

Different personal preferences I guess!

Well yeah. I guess my question should be “why do we learn indigo and violet when we learn about the rainbow”. It’s more cultural

Thanks. Is that a term?

Depends on what you mean by being treated well. The tech industry typically has fantastic office spaces, benefits and pay, but generally speaking they get overworked and under appreciated.

Social work, public health, education and that kind of “good for the world” work (not sure how to lump it all together) typically has bad pay, long hours, and unpleasant work spaces, but a really high degree of appreciation by their coworkers, superiors and clients.

Just some examples I’m familiar with

Tf is wrong with my hot algorithm that I’m getting 3yo posts on my front page? 😅

Why

Uh oh. What did I miss about WhatsApp?