When you do the search in your instance, sometimes it works better to search for (for example) "https://programming.dev/c/programming" instead of "!programming@programming.dev". Using the full URL seems to work better. I don't know why. And sometimes you have click search more than one time for it to show up.
Still some bugs to be worked out here, lol.
Yeah, I've read the 'hot' is broken. Lots of bugs still to be ironed out. They're working on it.
For Lemmy:
Stylus. And then find Lemmy scripts on UserStyles.world to install into Stylus and you can change the look and feel for Lemmy to make it more like Reddit, or whatever. I currently use a combination of 'Better Lemmy' and 'Old reddit-ish Lemmy'.
For general browsing:
uBlock Origin for ads
Privacy Badger for tracking
For YouTube:
Enhancer for YouTube
It's a known bug. It's getting fixed in 0.18 with the migration from websockets to HTML.
It's an artifact of how the software works right now. Of course, this could be changed in the future in any number of ways. Things are likely to develop rapidly given the influx of users. Many of these folks are developers and can and will add and change things to make it work better. That's the great thing about open source.
Instance A doesn't know about a community on instance B until somebody on instance A searches for it and (I think) subscribes to it. After that, the entire instance A can see the community on instance B.
So, with small instances and new communities there's a delay until and unless somebody does a search for it and starts interacting. And that means that the 'All' on difference instances, especially smaller instances, is going to be different. As more and more users join various instances and search for communities and interact with communities in the rest of the fediverse these will be more synced.
Hello. I am wondering, how can you see how many active users an instance has?
This website has that info and quite a bit more.
Second - if the worst happened, and you woke up one day, and the instance you created your account on shut down and disappeared on you, is that it for your account and profile? You’d lose everything and have to start over on another instance?
As things stand, yup it would all be gone. There is talk of work to make accounts able to be migrated. For now, create another account on another instance as a backup. Obviously it won't have your posts, comments, votes, etc. But you can at least make it moderator of any communities you moderate so you don't get messed up in that aspect.
Last question - what’s the best community to ask these types of lemmy newb questions on?
There are several good ones, including this one, Ask Lemmy, and a few others.
Yup, it will be interesting to see what happens when the moderation really starts to suffer and subs are more and more full of ads, spam, trolls, and other kinds of problems.
Some real Dukes of Hazzard vibes with that one!
Yeah, but they forgot about the poll question "Do you live in an urban or rural environment?" For that one it appears urban and rural Canadians are 100% divided.