Welcome here!

Interesting, I was using https://rethinkdns.com/ until now, I guess NetGuard is a more straightforward approach to blocking?

Which community did you post to where you where the only one posting?

Most probably

I do wonder if going with movies community on an instance that has more broad one already is too much of a handicap

It might be, I just posted on !movies@lemmy.world (not wanting to get another account banned on !moviesandtv@lemm.ee ), we'll see how it goes

I don't think that's much of an issue to be honest, and even if it is, having a "large" audience able to see it from their local feed should outweigh the con.

That's strange, I always check the gifs in catbox, they always play. Do you see the example I listed below?

I agree with you.

I even escalated the "power tripping" of the mod of !moviesandtv@lemm.ee at the time to the admin instance, but their stance was that they didn't want to interfere with the moderation of communities, as that would be themselves powertripping.

I'm going to post to the LW community to advertise !movies@lemm.ee at least

That was another shitshow, probably the worst I've ever seen on Lemmy

Have a good one!

Thanks for sharing!

Commenting for visibility as there were a few federation issues yesterday

Good to hear!

Discussions posts seem like a good idea indeed