Wait...the comment seems to indicate that the primary mod did not want to go dark, and an inactive mod came in and made it go dark. I understand being upset...but this does not seem like anything a Reddit admin would do?

So far so good. This is actually my first comment.

I had a hard time wrapping my head around how the federation worked. But figured out I just search here in communities only with my keywords. If I don't get a result here and https://browse.feddit.de then it means no community has yet been created anywhere.

I decided to make Beehaw my 'home' server after discovering it actually had an 'interview' that I jived with and a moderated/structured set of communities. As my first deeper 'test' of lemmy I have created my first community at lemmy.world since it seemed like the place for my random community about a grocery store chain: !traderjoes@lemmy.world

If I was making a specific tech/software related community I likely would have chosen lemmy.ml as that's where many other tech/software related projects have landed so far. But lemmy.world seemed the better choice for random.

Does this seem relatively close to be how I should handle things in the lemmyverse?

Edit: It would be nice if there was a user setting to open external links in new tabs.

Thanks for the heads up. I have a bunch of pending subs here to both. How do I remove pending?

Doh! Thanks you

-Vimium (install and hit the letter 'f' key. You will immediately understand the appeal if you are a keyboard jockey)
-A Userscript handler (Violentmonkey)
-Dark Reader
-Save to Pocket (I have a Kobo ereader, this extension is a must for reading on the go)
-Bitwarden
-Ublock if the browser doesn't have baked in Ad blocks.

I love reading the responses to this question.

It's quite simple. Create a pocket account at https://getpocket.com

Add some articles or Web Serial chapters to your pocket (easier with the Save to Pocket extension)

Add the Pocket account to your Kobo.

Sync your kobo.

It's such an under advertised feature of the Kobo devices.

Better but personally I don't like creating accounts on the kobo, would rather do on the desktop: https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017763753-Use-the-Pocket-App-with-your-Kobo-eReader

This comment needs to be upvoted to the top.

Does anyone have an actual written/average-jerk changelog? As in the changes vs. fixes that will be visible to the average user?

The github Release is just all the tags... https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases/tag/0.18.0

I can't even subscribe to anything at lemmy.ml for past ~24 hours. Even before that it was touch and go.

Is this just me?

Love them! And yes for consistency. Great work.

Thank you. This really should be a user profile option. Here's hoping.

That's what this does:

[Some text here](/c/community@instance.here)

Tap the 'more' skinny hamburger menu just above below this message to 'view source' of the below:

blah blah blah links to asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Actually..better, here is one for an instance that is neither yours or the one you posted into:

blay harg vlar

In response to your postscript: You can search here for other communities: https://browse.feddit.de and there may be other search, please let me know if you find them. That one is a bit slow to update. I used that to determine that there was no community yet for a topic. So I tried to get a feel for which lemmy might be best for it and created it there. The one I created was Trader Joe's Unofficial You can see I even added a note in the description about it being my first and trying to add a better/more mod.

TL;DR See if your community interest already exists anywhere, and if not, go create it!

Try searching here: https://lemmyverse.net/communities Keep in mind this lemmy is no longer federated with sh.itjust.works lemmy.ml or lemmy.world You may need a backup/second home lemmy to subscribe to them.

Keep in mind both those instances are fairly overloaded. I believe lemmy.ml is actively telling people to go elsewhere and subscribe from there.