I write by hand to get things out of my head, whether useful or negative it tends to stop me mulling over it. I’ve always liked the idea of getting a fountain pen, but have never actively pursued it.

It sounds like there was, but the action seems to have happened on mastodon servers. The quit message can be found here.

https://lemmy.perthchat.org/post/219342

No Lemmy ettique missing as there wasn’t enough of a community to form anything. I had no issue with the smaller size and all the usual posters I’d see and chat with have dispersed with the larger array of content.

But now you don’t get people signing up, talking about the lack of content and disappearing. Or servers set up in hope and shut down - eope.xyz caw.ai Jeremmy.ml or ones that ragequit fapsi.be. And of course wolfballs.

Even if most go back to reddit it will still be an improved space with the servers and communities that remain I think.

Most definitely, although with many of these projects its probably not a case of not wanting to make it easier, but simply that it hasnt been implemented yet. I generally tend to link so that people can check out the community being referred to -

Good question! You can copy the text !cats@midwest.social, then click the magnifying glass at top right and search for the community.

It should then come up in your search results, where you can visit from your own instance, and click to subscribe.

!cats@midwest.social is the long running cat-pic community.

Oooh yeah looks like the mod deleted the forum after I posted the link :/

• Fedilore and Fedirama on lemmy.ca
• Classic Albums on sopuli.xyz (which i mod.)
• Gaming on beehaw.org

Great to see a topical rather than a generalist instance!

Some instances only don’t allow community creation by users (beehaw,jeremmy when it was around) and perhaps lemmy.one is the same?

There is the ability to become a mod of an existing community on a different instance I believe - via request.

That is seems unreal but smazing

Personally I never liked mastodon all that much, (I’d take pleroma,misskey,friendica + variants over it )so a little dispiriting to see it dominate with Google like proportions. Not surprised though.

https://lm.korako.me/ looks to be running bots