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I'm definitely seeing the benefits of belonging to a smaller Lemmy instance today. (self.meta)
submitted 1 year ago by michaelcharles to c/meta
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I've gone and made accounts of a handful of Lemmy instances, all of them larger, more popular ones.

... and I can't access any of them directly today, likely due to the influx of users from Reddit.

Programming.dev is alive and well though.

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[–] JackbyDev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

old timey BB forum

That's why I have the Netscape profile pic lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait you can use gifs as the avatar? Oh yeah!

[–] JackbyDev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have no idea, this is technically a webp file I had on my computer from God knows where. I'm always nervous bringing attention to it because I don't want the Lemmy UI devs to find out and think it is a bug lol.

[–] ruffsl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I came across this community, which it reminded me of your choice of avatar, and figured you'd be interested:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]