Honestly it is a bit weird, yes, but you do you 😄

I mostly used RiF, but installed the official app during a trip last year to do logistics with someone who was using the built in chat.

I don’t tend to always have data on my phone, because WiFi is everywhere, and just add some when I’m going on a trip like this. I’d loaded up a fiver’s worth the morning we left, which usually sees me through an entire month in these situations.

Woke up after the first night away to an alert that my data was all used up. And on further investigation, guess which app was the culprit? Just literally sitting there overnight while I was asleep, gobbling up a month’s worth of data to do god knows what.

I uninstalled the app.

Yeah everything is taking an absolute hammering atm and federation is all over the place. I’ve got two accounts myself. Just couldn’t bear the idea of OP having like ten accounts for different instances by accident :D

I know it’s not the point of your post (which I did read and also agree with) but just in case nobody else has mentioned it…

In your summary you said you’d signed up for “other instances of Lemmy” and I just want to make sure you know you don’t need to do that to join communities in other places! :)

Subscribed, new comments. It’s the perfect combo as it shows me new posts but also ones getting recent action.

I do regularly flip to local or all just because it’s fun to stumble across random new stuff, and also because I’m not subbed to many actually big communities (yet).

Been on Mastodon for a while, it was my intro to the Fediverse and I’d never really used Twitter so was surprised how well I took to it!

I have two accounts, if anyone’s interested in mostly crafty stuff there’s @thegiddystitcher@artisan.chat, or I also post hobbyist gamedev stuff and occasional snooker rants as @teahands@mastodon.gamedev.place.

Subbing to all of them, contributing where I can, and seeing what happens :)

This question makes no sense because I’m British and we make literally anything sound like an insult.

Ocean. Mostly around Greece, and I’ve never been to Greece so it’s double exciting 😄

Already been pricing up river cruises though just in case we really take to it and decide cruise life is the life for us!

Honestly that does sound really fun! The best thing about coding is that once you’ve learned to do it decently in one language, you can pick other languages up really easy. Good luck!

It’s a part of all community URLs. Including asklemmy.

You know I’ve been recommending that link to everyone and had no idea you could actually use it to browse per-instance lol. Well done me 🤦‍♀️

Thanks for the heads up!

You can visit the actual instance, e.g. lemmy.world and then check out communities at the top. Not sure if there’s a better way yet, someone let me know if so!

Dislike :(

We’re going on a cruise at the start of August, which is the sort of thing I could never justify the cost of but has been on my bucket list since I was a kid and thought a cruise was the height of fanciness. In this case, it’s with husband’s family and it’s mostly paid for, so definitely can’t turn that down!

Lots of summery sewing to do in preparation. And luckily I already knit and cross stitch as well so should get on fine with the old biddies who I assume make up at least 70% of cruise passengers.

Congrats that’s awesome! I’m hoping to learn soon too (in my case VERY late to driving), can only imagine how good it must feel.

We would love to see your knitting over at !creative@beehaw.org 😄

Yep this is the “official” one so far insofar as that’s a thing, our plan is to basically gather all crafters and creative types there for now until it becomes obvious that one type of craft is overtaking everything and should be split out.

You know that bit in Aliens where Bishop gets attacked and all the…white stuff…comes out?

Yeah I was allowed to watch that a bit too young and even though I know it’s silly I still can’t watch it comfortably to this day!

Nice.