“Heavier than any other creature, including the dinosaurs”… this author doesn’t seem to know that blue whales are heavier than any of the dinosaurs.

I really want to see a data viz of whether/how much users are spreading out. Anyone got the data on user counts over time by instance?

Yeah I mean it’s a lot harder to take back your territory if you’re limited to only fighting within that territory. They’ll have to strike within Russian borders to successfully get their own land back.

It’s true that several instances (the ones hosted in Mali?) closed, but I think you’re premature in saying the smaller instances are disappearing, Lemmy.one included.

Sure, they’re bound to crash or go down for maintenance from time to time, but that doesn’t mean they’re finished. So far my experience has been that if you give it a couple days they’ll be back. Keep in mind these are shoestring operations and sometimes seeing major influxes of users.

Anyone got a paywall workaround?

I think they basically have built up a tolerance to those bacteria. They probably got sick at some point and survived.

Linked in a comment within that post, this appears to be an extremely comprehensive list:

https://kbin.social/m/specialized_instances/t/186667/Big-list-of-specialized-instances

Really love Mander

That’s not the only way. Smaller instances will have very different All feeds because All is just an aggregate of your Instance-mates.

Oh shit! That was one of my favorite things on Reddit. Maybe I should go ba-Wait a minute…

Reality has a known liberal bias

Got it. This makes sense now

Thanks. How would they ever get away with that? Aren’t electoral college members selected way in advance? I know they aren’t legally required to vote the way their constituents want, but if a state replaced one altogether with a stooge, wouldn’t their vote just not count?

Lol I guess I should have specified I’m referring to the Trump 2020 scheme that’s in the news today

Charles de Gaulle Airport. Nothing more to be said

You’re going to have to accept that it’ll hurt for a long time. Give yourself some grace and let yourself be heartbroken for as long as you need. It sucks, but you’ll snap out of it eventually.

Two things that will probably help:

1. Hang out with people you like
2. Do things that make you proud of what you did that day

It’s easy to skip into a hole and wallow there. While you have to let yourself grieve, you also have to put in the work to have a constructive life. Treat it as a responsibility to get up and do something each day.

Yeah the All feed shows you the communities that you and all your instance-mates follow, but not every community in existence.

Omg I fucking hate food blogs. Nobody wants an essay on the history of lentils followed by a 5-page story about the first time the author tried coriander!

Just give me a bullet point list you assholes! I don’t care if you get more ad money if I have to scroll for 30 seconds.

I think a good strategy is to start on Lemmy.World until you discover a solid list of communities you want to follow. Then switch to a smaller instance that aligns with your interests and bring all your subscriptions with you.

If you start on a small instance you’ll have to do a lot more work to discover communities, since they mostly won’t appear in your All feed. Plus, you’re doing that small instance a favor by bringing interesting communities to their All feed.

Desperately needed tl;dr:

Wear an N95 or stay indoors.