I went there in 2009. I was too young to appreciate the culture. Locals were busy selling tourists goods and I wasn’t even sure what to soak in at the square.

Back in my day lemmy.ml was the biggest instance.

So the Wagner Group is 300km from Moscow and Putin is on his way to St. Petersburg.

Lemmy has made me realize that choosing communities (similar to subreddits) is important to me. I try not to search by /all and find information I am interested in. Having to join new communities again is not exactly a problem.

You most likely don’t have as much free time on your hands. That is a major reason for this. You can start with smaller books of interest to get the feeling of completion.

They are just following the reactionary social media norms these days. The lack of proper passing of information and just humoured by the subreddit protests such as in r/pics. Some people are not actually on Reddit for information.

I'm not saying Lemmy is going backwards, but I prefer this forum vibe I am experiencing here with people expressing their opinions and helping each other.

The main reason it is growing is because you cannot sign up to Lemmy.ml if you tried right now.

The irony is that I am "Subscribe pending" while posting in !general_discussion@lemmy.fmhy.ml

Assuming all the instances will forever be kept, I would join the smallest one. But you never know...

Thanks for the feedback. Seems impossible to sign for the instance.

Does anyone know how long it takes to create sign up to the lemmy.ml instance? It seems impossible right now.