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You probably have the bowel of popcorn underneath your mouth... when it falls it gets caught, only to be ready for hamfisting once more.

This lady made the mistake of using her clothes for that purpose.

Ah ounce of preparation is worth a pound of cure!

Hrm... so just like all software development then? 😜

Thank you for sharing that story.

He deserves it, and I hope he comes back well rested:-).

Depending on your method of access (like app or webpage) often there is a way to browse without an account. Though you won't be able to comment, vote, or save anything (like settings). So really, to sign up on a new instance, you pretty much need an account to do all this - otherwise abusers would send so much spam everywhere, this is why accounts are mandatory.

Although once you have an account on one instance, you automatically get to see content from all of them. Make sure you are looking at "All" rather than just "Local" content.

When you are ready to switch, go to account settings, scroll to the bottom and choose Export, then in the new place choose Import and it will port over all your subscriptions, block lists, etc.

The world is what you make of it. It's definitely not fair. One tip: narrow your experiences until you can stand them?

Honestly PieFed helps so much with that, it's like night and day. Maybe switch to PieFed.World (or something) and check how those categories of communities change your experience completely. You don't even need to make an account to start with that.

You don't ever have to scroll your main feed again, until and unless you want to... there are whole entire days when I have not done so, and a wealth of content to be seen if only the right tool helps connect you to what you are looking for. Drop the largest communities and embrace the niche, if you are looking for quality over quantity. Blaze managed it on Lemmy but it took having twenty different accounts, whereas PieFed lets you do it with just one.

Nowadays you need the apostrophe, and a mix of capital and small letters. #IDon'tKnow⁉️

And never will

Whatever happened to the Thunder fork - I never hear any news of it these days despite it having been started first?

Literally... yes. Those are all that are allowed iirc.

You are a good actor, but I was speaking here about bad actors that choose to do things differently. Small communities by their nature definitely have differing dynamics, especially in situations such as when the original founder is the only or primary mod, or the chief poster. Communities change dynamics as they age though, and the question of ownership gets much more murky then.

Reddit mods can absolutely silently remove posts without telling the poster. I don't know why you think they can't.

REALLY? I was a mod of a couple of different small to medium sized communities and I never heard about that. I definitely would have tested it too, by removing my own content and seeing if I received a notification event. Then again, Reddit has changed since the Rexodus so perhaps that is what you mean? Or shadow banning? (But that was done by admins, not mere mods.) And there was most definitely a modmail on Reddit, whereas on Lemmy there is no such method of connection provided.

But now I feel like you are ignoring what I said: no you can't DM a mod, on Lemmy, when the modlog merely says that the action was done by a "mod" - unless you message every single mod listed in the entire community, one by one. Which for a small community with one mod is of course easy, but some of the largest communities have much larger mod teams, showing that just because something works under one set of conditions does not imply that it will work under all of them. Anyway DM mods definitely is not the same as a dedicated modmail. Perhaps I am not the best one to communicate this to you but you will see over time as you notice how Lemmy works on the large scale.

... when they were 30?

Anyway, you go girls, get it! 😂