Ah, thank you for the explanation!

I’m 40 and would have no idea how big penis of a toddler should be - and with all growth hormone stuff happening, I wouldn’t feel comfortable at judging at this age (besides that it is mostly irrelevant in long term relationships)

Also, my personal penis, so to speak, can be very minor, but as a grower I needed to step up my confidence, when being naked - but of curse instead of an actual micro penis, mine seems to be just shy and needs some encouraging words or kisses.
So maybe I can’t relate.

Still I think this idea is idiotic

Completely agree, the whole Americans conquer was a complete cultural disaster

exactly

it still has quite some bugs, but yeah, the base is already quite solid and I can use it without much restrictions

I’m really optimistic for the future of Lemmy and the Fediverse in general. maybe I’m just wish-thinking here, but I feel so much more at home on the internet again since I discovered Lemmy, Gemini, Marginalia,…
I feel like being back in the internet of my youth again. I just love it :⁠-⁠)

I had some problems subscribing to non-local communities - especially the search never worked, didn’t matter if I paste in the URL or the !community@server notation. still I somehow managed to join most of them, but only after trying and playing around for some time.

this part definitely needs some work, but the concept is well with it imho - and as currently new contributors start to join, this could grow quite nicely.

I still don’t really know, if every instance needs to mirror the posts/comments of other instances, when I’m subscribed to their community, or only the data gets forwarded - or directly linked?
so I’m not sure what the costs of running a small instance would be, if my users would subscribe to larger communities on other instances - that would be hard to finance for instances with small user bases

well, everyone has to get comfortable first and had questions. also now with many more people, much more bugs show up.

there are some communities to report those issues to (like jerboa@lemmy.ml ) or you can probably use github to report an issue.

but maybe we should build up a New Lemmings community for those kind of questions, with a guide and FAQ. also those questions wouldn’t spill over as much in other communities.
You’re probably right, that this has a big potential to be annoying. but I also understand people with questions.

as currently Reddit is taking a dive and many people are newly discovering Lemmy, it’s currently also a topic of major interest.
I think it’s good for the project, when new ideas come up and people start to contribute more - be it content, code, documentation or moderation