Can you self-host, or are you looking for another online service? Facebook Groups is basically a forum when it comes down to it, and any forum software can do what you're asking. I really like Discourse. You can self-host it for free (well, whatever your server costs), they'll host it for free if you're an open-source project, or if you're a legal non-profit you can get 50% off their hosting for $25-50/month.

I'm not aware of the problems, so I can't make such a post. Looking at this now and searching by URL for magazines on kbin and communities on lemmy instances both seem to work as expected, so I can't reproduce what you're seeing.

I am aware of issues with lemmy.ml, searching for communities that are hosted on that server will often fail the first few times, and subscribing to communities that are hosted on that server often shows that subscriptions are "pending," so if that's where you are searching for communities I can see why it'd be an issue. Federation is a two-way street, so if lemmy.one can't fetch remote data then it won't work, but I've seen many other reports of people subscribing to remote communities just fine, so I don't think there's any issues we're seeing on our end.

The downvote isn't federated.

When doing an outdoor activity, I would allow my precise location on a run.

It is well-known now that anonymizing location data still does not preserve privacy: https://iapp.org/news/a/getting-lost-in-the-crowd-the-limits-of-privacy-in-location-data-2/

You only start getting posts and comments from after the first person on your instance (you in this case) subscribes to the community. You can make it fetch old posts manually if there's something you want to reply to by entering the post URL in /search, otherwise just wait and all the new posts will show up here.

lemmy.ml has a lot of federation issues unfortunately (uptime issues in general, actually). There’s not much that can be done until their server is fixed, and yes I agree it’s very annoying, but they’re working on it 👍

Is it because of fees or a one time tip jar feature?

Both. Thanks for your support! I should check out Liberapay again though.

I prefer the browser to apps personally, this is actually one of the main reasons I like Lemmy over Reddit and it's unusable mobile view. You'll find plenty of mobile app users here too and it sounds like it works fine, I'll just caution that some (all?) of them sound like they're feature-incomplete, so if you ever think something is missing from Lemmy, double-check on the website first, because it might just not be added to the app yet.

It's fine to register here, I mostly just don't want to create a misunderstanding that you have to register on lemmy.one to join local communities here, which can be joined from any instance. And I'm telling Subreddit moderators to link people to join-lemmy.org instead of lemmy.one in announcement posts in the spirit of decentralization.

Oh yeah, fixed 👍

"The content" on all Lemmy instances is the same. There is no account migration, but you can just sign up on lemmy.ml. If you already had an account there and you want it back... I don't know if it's possible for an admin there to restore it, you might have to get in touch with them.

Oh yeah, NextDNS is blocking it in their "Threat Intelligence Feeds" as well, that was my problem.

@admin@monero.house maybe you should look into https://blocklist-tools.developerdan.com/entries/search?q=monero.house