This stuff isn't intentional. It's just that MS is really bad at handling errors. So they just gave up and put a generic message.

Even lemmy.ml has suffered the occasional server hiccup. Most of the big instances are pretty stable now though

Why does anyone subscribe to new@lemmy.ml? It's run by tankies. Therefore very biased.

That’d be awesome. I would greatly appreciate that

I don’t need a private community, although that option would be good.

What I really want is the ability to hide a community’s posts from the All and Local pages. (only visible if you go direct or you’re subscribed)

And if you search for the community you’re able to find it.

You probably installed the graphical one. emacs-nox is command-line only and significantly smaller.

emacs

I realize half of you people never touch it, but come on. It’s not that large a package these days.

I think a better request is to get your client to show you just the communities from a particular instance in your feed, rather than actually switching instances to browse.

I’m a simple man. I see complaints about downvotes and I downvote that.

A bunch have. But it can be difficult to get a whole ton of non technical consumers move to a platform that’s unpolished.

I love lemmy. But it can be confusing at first to new users.

I only know about the subs I mod.

A popular one with a couple million subscribers is seeing way less posts and less traffic.

A smaller niche sub that I mod is still quite active with no signs of stopping.