Darn, but thanks for the note. I’ll put a reminder to confirm emails on tomorrow’s edit, even for Lemmy; since email is used to recover passwords, no email + lost password = lost account, and that’s not fun!

Thank you so much!

Thanks for letting me know!

I think it might still be in TestFlight? I should probably add that if it is, I haven’t looked myself.

Got it, didn’t know about Cloudflare being on there. I’ll make Lemmy a slightly lighter grey but I don’t want to sacrifice readability, so I might do a different color, don’t know yet!

Absolutely, that’s what it’s there for!

Thanks for the reply; regardless of whether it’s actually legal wherever a person is/where the server’s hosted (Canada has stricter laws pertaining this type of stuff, not sure if it would cover what’s going on there), it still has a definite ‘ick’ factor I am not comfortable with, and I’m glad to know I’m not alone I’m thinking that! The ideology of the Lemmy devs and the Lemmygrad instance are also highly questionable at best, and while there’s not much we can do to keep the join Lemmy site off of the Google results in the short term, not spreading it further is a good idea.

There’s not another easily accessible mobile-friendly actual directory I know of; I put the browse community page as a next best thing. I think I vaguely recall finding some all-Fediverse-instance site, but that is was very broken, crowded, and unusable on mobile.

I’m not code-savvy at all myself; I’d really love to see another, more filtered directory that would be more appealing to the average person!

Is that Android only or is it on iOS as well? I’d definitely be interested in adding it!

Thank you, I didn’t expect this to take off like it did! I explained in another post here why I didn’t name join lemmy for the guide, but the thread is getting pretty long. There are instances listed on there fairly high up with descriptions that suggests the instance hosts and permits illegal content (the instance is not FMHY or related to piracy as I also noted), and I wouldn’t feel good about recommending the website because of that. browse.feddit.de didn’t have anything of that nature on their list as far as I can tell by scrolling for a few minutes, and it also tells you which instance hosts the community.

Good point! I won’t be able to edit for a few hours, but in terms of it not always being accurate it is definitely possible in the vast majority of cases.

(I can’t reply to zekus@beehaw.org for some reason, just loads endlessly)

It’s not FMHY, and the piracy sub appears on the feddit.de list I posted. Good to hear it’s being moderated!

Edited; the defederation bit probably shouldn’t be the reason why someone picks a server (my original thought was that someone who is LGBTQ probably won’t have to worry about seeing phobic content from another instance, for example), but chances are if the rules make a place inviting to a group, conflicting (or illegal) instances will probably be defederated anyways.

I will be removing the de-federation part and putting the email analogy in its place, I agree it isn’t really important enough to note. The reason I don’t add the join lemmy site is that they list at least one instance that seems to invite illegal activity/content, and that didn’t take long to find in the directory, so I feel it would be irresponsible to mention it. I scrolled through browse.feddit.de for a few minutes and couldn’t find anything that obvious, so I added that one. It says where a community is hosted, too, so that might help someone!

This is kind of what I was thinking; it does matter which instance you joint in the sense that different servers have different goals, rules, and moderation, and saying it doesn’t matter isn’t quite right. It is true that you’ll see a lot of the same things across instances, though, and I’ll revise to add that in the next few hours.

Good point! I can easily resize and add more space.

I was thinking about this last night; maybe a sort of phone-scrolling poster-style guide (not dissimilar to the API changes effects banners on Reddit the past week) with a quick guide to Lemmy/Kbin. I’m not totally new to the Fediverse having used Mastodon on and off after the Twitter migration, but I’m no pro when it comes to writing the content for one though.
Should probably be under a Creative Commons license as well.

(edit: grammar)

I feel that depending on what kind of content creation it is, some of the people balking at those kids who want to be influencers don’t realize that it is still a lot of work. This is being a freelance entertainer, you still need to learn strategies. I’m preparing to start VTubing (independently) at 20 as a side hustle, and there is an astounding amount of preparation to do it well. Also, these content creator lifestyles can also be appealing for disabled/chronically ill people like myself. A good community will wish you well, understand, and not ask you for a doctor’s note if you need time off frequently; a manager at a corporate job, not so much. Disabled or not, everyone deserves flexibility, and being an influence can support that well.

I think there’s a good chance anyone would understand with the disaster Reddit’s about to become!

Hey there! Will be deleting my Reddit in a few days, just posted some goodbyes to a few communities (linking to my Beehaw and Mastodon) but by Sunday they will have done their job. Goodbye and good riddance, Reddit.