Yeah, I noticed afterwards xD

That’s an open issue on Github. The devs are currently in the middle of trying to optimize performance so the whole network doesn’t go down on the 12th. If you know any webdevs willing to have at it, great!

Go to Communities at the top, change the filter from “Local” to “All” and search for “Gaming”.

If you’re the first one who wants to register to a community from this server (not the case here) it’s slightly more complex.

Arrr me matey! I can’t walk the plank, me wings’ll get in the way!

As I said on !vegan@lemmy.ml, I would very much classify myself as an aspiring vegan. I don’t eat meat at all and try and avoid dairy & eggs when I can, but takeaway, family gatherings and restaurants are basically impossible here in eastern Europe. Most places these days have vegetarian options at least, and my parents are fine with making sure I have something without meat, but EVERYTHING has cheese in it. I never realized quite how all-pervasive cheese is until I tried to avoid it, and I’ve given up hope of any vegan options that I don’t cook myself.

Absolutely enraging.

Such a bizarre linguistic thing that’s happened with woke. It’s now essentially meaningless. What was once a legitimate term meaning “alert to racial prejudice”, now just means “thing I don’t like”.

Hey! Glad to be part of the fediverse. Bit of a learning curve, but it’s exciting and interesting!

For me, the big difference maker is that I no longer feel like I’m shouting into the void. Quite often, I’d see a post, I’d have an opinion/comment/thought about it, start writing a comment, and then think “Why bother? This post already has 5000 comments, and default sort is hot. Nobody will read the 5001st comment”.

Maybe it’s just my monkey brain, but after a day of adjusting, it definitely feels better to have 2+ upvotes and/or 1 comment so I know somebody at least considered what I said rather than a buried comment that nobody will ever see.

Yeah, the admin post at the start of the spike was talking about needing to stagger new registrants, presumably to avoid an eternal September like scenario where the community permanently changes character.

If this is the case, makes perfect sense. I may be a newbie to Lemmy, but looking around the best case scenario imo is a whole bunch of instances, both existing and new, take the load. That way each instance gets to decide what they want their own communities to look like.

It’s effectively the same as cutting it off for third party apps. No small-time app developer has 20 million lying around.

They’re trying to profit as much as possible from the AI companies that want to scrape user data, and throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Killing third party apps are just a nice side benefit as they can get more eyeballs on ads.