No way they'll be able to join whilst illegally occupying an EU member state

It was always going to happen but an instance being the defacto default for Lemmy is a bad thing.

There really needs to be a tool to help people pick an instance, but even then people would just flock to the general instances like .world anyway

They've just killed off third-party apps no way they'd do this as it just completely undos what they're trying to achieve + allows users with accounts they don't even own

Cyprus

Daily users have almost halved in the last month. Guessing a purge of bots or something

Why allow people access through a browser when you can track them a lot more easily if they download your app

I'd love to use mastadon but I use twitter for sport/politics journalists and none of them are on mastadon.

Is there an android gaming community anywhere?

Yep, that's the one

There's https://lemmyverse.net/communities which will show you all the communities that exist. You can filter by instance as well.

It's a separate site though.

It's not just articles though. A lot of commentary happens on twitter that never makes it to a long form article

I was planning on getting the Pixel 8 but will hold out for a while. Would love to hold my Pixel 5 for a couple more years but security updates will stop end of this year so we'll see then.

Yeah I used to be one of those people; rooted phone, custom ROM etc. But had problems with traveling and different bands on an old phone. Don't think it's worth the hassle anymore

A Fediverse browser that allows you to connect to a range of fediverse platforms would probably be the only thing to get me fully invested in it tbh. I'm quite enjoying lemmy but I've not really had much interest in the other platforms other than mastodon but twitter has all the people I follow so hard to move off of it