I see the anybody but GoDaddy thing a lot too. The controversies page on Wikipedia does a decent job at pointing out some of the reasons people dislike them.
Looking at feature set though, I'm in the same boat as you. Part of it is me being lazy though. When my registrations come up for renewal in a few years I'll take a serious look at porkbun.
What is your resource utilization like? I know larger instances obv have their own quirks but one of my unknowns is what specs for the server.
I'm also curious about disk space. I've seen people self hosting say their usage grows about 500M per day (but no mention on the amount of communities they actively federate) which would fill up my Hetzner box in about a few months. Having never adminned Lemmy, is there some sort of content deletion job that removes stuff after X amount of days?
Lastly, from what I understand the federated tab only shows stuff from instances (or is it down to the community level?) where at least 1 user in your home instance is subscribed. Did you just have to go out and browse communities you're interested in and follow them yourself? Or maybe with an alt account?
It's crazy to me just how much praise I got from my mother in law when I would immediately change my newborn's diaper or really do anything my wife had asked when we brought the baby home. I signed up for literally all of this when I got married and we decided to have kids.
What a wild world we live in in which doing the absolute bare minimum to support your significant other and your child is met with praise.
I've had issues doing it from mobile, but on desktop this is what I do:
It sometimes takes a bit to search, but eventually it will and will present you with a link titled dungeonworld@ttrpg.network with a destination of https://lemmy.one/c/dungeonworld@ttrpg.network
And voila. If a community hasn't been subscribed to from your home instance it's my understanding that this is the only reliable way to get it federated. Once you do this search it will show up but no comments or anything come across until someone (e.g. you) actively subscribes to the community.
I did this for dungeonworld so you should see something now, but give it a go for bassment.
Thanks for the .atom tip. I've been messing with Diun to try and keep up on updates but I run so many different things it ends up being useless by the time I get around to wanting to actually do the updates. I'll add the ones I super care about to Miniflux though and see if that's more doable for me
I saw something that a fix was in the works, but also that it seems to only affect chrome based browsers. I set it as a PWA from Firefox and have never had the orientation change on me unexpectedly