substill

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[–] substill@vlemmy.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

Unless I’m overlooking it, join-lemmy provides no essential info to choosing an instance. It doesn’t display uptime, location, number of users, age, or number of connected instances.

I used It and ended up on an instance that seemed to be missing many male** communities and was on the other side of the planet from me (though fortunately did not have too many other users). Then I followed a different instance browser and found a much better one for me.

EDIT: ** was supposed to say major communities, not male communities. But I’m leaving it because

[–] substill@vlemmy.net 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That and a limit of 3 per user per day seem rational.

[–] substill@vlemmy.net 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah I’m not sure what the algorithm is taking into account in deciding “hot.” Seems it is “recent views but only because the formula fed this old stuff to the last few rounds, too.”

[–] substill@vlemmy.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I’m on a smaller instance and wefwef is snappy af

[–] substill@vlemmy.net 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Any word on memmy App Store approval?

[–] substill@vlemmy.net 1 points 2 years ago

I’ve found when that happens, single tapping the middle of the screen seems to fix it. The app doesn’t respond to whatever target you single tap in that circumstance. When you scroll or whatever after the single tap, it works.

[–] substill@vlemmy.net 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

to have Washington on your side.

[–] substill@vlemmy.net 4 points 2 years ago

That is the main feature I’m missing, too.

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