You visited the worst parts. No wonder.
Try Yosemite, Oakhurst, Morro Bay, or Monterey.
My wife is also a scab sticking to reddit. Unfortunately, a good reason for doing so is that a lot of the niche woman-oriented subs she's on don't exist in the fediverse yet.
That's most likely happening because of the over-centralization. If your origin server had been smaller federation to/from it and !hardware@lemmy.ml would have been significantly faster. Having a no-nonsense "urgent news" lemmy instance act as a hub for faster federation would be a great value-add for the community as a whole.
You're not wrong. There needs to be slightly better/more informative marketing that your communities are accessible from anywhere, and locale of the server doesn't matter.
People are joining lemmy.world before they learn/understand they can access communities from any federated node (which is nearly everything except beehaw)
Finally some recognition at least...
surprising absolutely nobody....
They are different software with a compatible protocol also used by a handful of other software including Mastodon. There are other kbin instances like fedia.io and there are hundreds of Lemmy instances.
Since the beginning of the Reddit blackout, kbin.social had been running in isolation due to server load. Now it is fully integrated with the rest of us (I'm not on kbin at the moment).
yes
yes!
Change your default view from All/new to Subscribed/active.
Give it time 😃
My girl craves bananas and will circle the table when my son and I are having breakfast, demanding her share. She also likes pita chips.
My old boy (RIP) used to love avocado and seaweed snacks.