This is one of my all time favourites, it never fails to make me laugh!

Ah right fair enough.

It is. Go into your account settings -> blocks and at the bottom is a section for blocking instances.

I’ve got Lemmy.ml in there. You’ll still see comments from their users and posts from users in other communities but you shouldn’t see any of their communities in your feed.

Why not block the entire instance in your settings?

Monthly Active Users (MAU) is probably the best metric for the health of Lemmy. A lot of these instances that are shutting down may be single-user instances or ones that people spun up just to mess about with them.

However, please donate to your instance if you can, it doesn’t have to be much :)

Wait, do other countries not do this? So if a public holiday falls on a Saturday it doesn’t get pushed to Monday?

This is like the perfect comment as to why a lot of people find ml users insufferable and toxic.

I’m distracted how big that pile of wood is and how close it is to the rest of the forest.

This post itself is mildly infuriating as I can’t tell what’s wrong in the picture!

Ah right yeah that makes sense

Why does someone need to be home for that? Can’t they leave it outside or around the back somewhere?

♥️ glad to be part of our community!

Our instance is federated with hexbear, lemmygrad etc. I want to be resonsible for what I see and block, I’m really not a fan of defederation unless it’s a last resort (i.e. CSAM or other illegal content).

I did end up blocking the lemmy.ml instance though, fuck that place. I haven’t even blocked hexbear or lemmygrad.

The problem is most likely people that are new to the fediverse/lemmy just not understanding it and choosing a “default”, popular instance. I was going to pick it as a safe option when I first came here but it was under load and wasn’t accepting new users, where I then had to find another instance and settled on feddit.uk.

It would be good if lemmy instances could have the option of “load balancing” new users, so if the current instance has way more active users than it’s federated wtih then it disables registration but recommends other, smaller instances to the user.

Don’t forget “it’s too complicated”

No that’s new to me too, based off me searching the word and seeing the Wiki article on the toy. I’d seen the word because of one of the instances (blahaj zone), but I literally never see the word outside of Lemmy.

TIL blahaj refers to a soft toy shark sold by IKEA.

I don’t think you can correlate the number of readers to the number of book instances or whatever they’re called. Most people (myself included) probably just use Goodreads, and BookWyrm is probably a good enough alternative that there’s no need to spin up another.

Edit: according to this there’s a lot of instances: https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances/

The joke isn’t the program itself, it’s the process of deploying a website to servers.

“Be nice and civil” - which is a fair enough rule, but it’s always used as a blanket ban. Most of the removed comments weren’t hostile or uncivil

The thread was posted into the memes community too so there’s always going to be a bit of banter, but most comments that weren’t in support of China were removed.