I think replying to every single point you made would be way off topic, so I'm not going to.
What I will respond to is your very first comment. The far right, worldwide (not just republicans) is practically frothing at the mouth about trans people lately. Their rhetoric is borderline genocidal, with open calls to "exterminate transgenderism". No civil discussion can be had when one of the sides is literally out for blood.
There are many issues that you can take many perfectly reasonable differing opinions on, and have a civil discussion over, but this isn't one of them.
It's good. I'm on a lemmy instance too, not sure which I prefer, but so far more active here. I appreciate that it doesn't really matter which I use.
My understanding is, a community doesn't start federating until someone on your instance kicks it into motion, usually by searching for it (as you have just done). From that point onwards, posts from that community are shared with your instance, but it doesn't go backwards in time.
This is my impression, but hopefully someone else will chime in.
I had this same problem. Try looking it up over here: https://kbin.social/search possibly without the ! mark, not sure.
I think the magazines list only shows magazines/communities that have already federated. But, search kicks that into motion if it hasn't started already.
I support it. Literally the entire purpose of living in a society vs. as hermits, is so that we can help one another out. Lets do more of that.
Yeah, smileys are rad =.=
I like emojis too though 🥳.
Like a good wine pairing :)
That did it! Thank you :D
I was looking under https://kbin.social/magazines, good to know I should use the search instead :)
How do I subscribe to a community if it isn't federated yet?
Saw a couple of neat looking communities over on lemmy.world shared in newcommunities. I don't think they're federated yet. I thought if I followed the !communityname@instance link that would trigger federation of that community, but that doesn't seem to be happening (just getting 404). Am I missing something?
I hear you, but politics are literally unavoidable. Also, for some of us, especially members of minority groups conservatives have it out for right now, literally just existing openly in a space will sometimes have folks crying politics.
The first computer my family had was a really old one with MS DOS. First game was either Nibbles, or a weird platformer called Dark Ages (can't remember which I tried first).
I'm happy for you, or sorry that happened. When stuck on hold I just like to close my eyes and dream about horsies
ATLA is awesome. Worth enjoying at any age.
I've got a decent collection of stuff animals. They're nice.
I'm interested in this too. I've blocked a couple of domains, and that helps, but now and then they still pop up.
I get it now and then. I assume the servers are just getting hammered.
This was a fantastic read, thank you for sharing it!
I was never on LiveJournal, but I remember spending a lot of time on all sorts of random websites in the 90s and early 00s. Many hosted on Geocities, or Tripod, often with free forum software of some sort, making hundreds of tiny little communities. And over time, each one disappeared.
The fediverse gives me hope; it definitely has its problems, but fundamentally no single person owns the whole thing. Individual corners may come and go, but the network will remain, and that's awesome.