Off My Chest
RULES:
I am looking for mods!
1. The "good" part of our community means we are pro-empathy and anti-harassment. However, we don't intend to make this a "safe space" where everyone has to be a saint. Sh*t happens, and life is messy. That's why we get things off our chests.
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3. Frustrated, venting, or angry posts are still welcome.
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5. If anyone offers mental, medical, or professional advice here, please remember to take it with a grain of salt. Seek out real professionals if needed.
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It seems like most of your struggle is from choosing a new instance with a very low number of users.
I'd say just use lemmy.world
Apologies if this is a stupid question. I promise I'm not usually tech illiterate but this whole setup is new to me. How do I transfer my account to a new instance? Or do I just have to abandon this one and make a new account there?
Edit: yeah this instance I'm on sucks. Realizing now that it definitely does not let you access everything from there. A lot of communities I've searched for and thought were missing just aren't showing up in myserv.one's search results. Here I was thinking that there wasn't even a functional non-binary community in the lemmyverse or fediverse or whatever.
Aaand it looks like I found my answer. From what I can tell, the Lemmy devs consider import/export as good enough / the same thing as transferring a profile so they're just going to ignore the issue and never attempt to implement it. So I guess new account it is.
https://lemmy.world/ is a large general purpose instance that would certainly work. https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/ is a popular instance that is specifically gender diverse.
They both block the two most obnoxious instances.
Just make a new account. There is an option in the settings of the website to export and import your settings. I'll reply with a screenshot.
Apologies for another reply but I just wanted to dump my mounting frustration with this platform somewhere. Now I am lemmy.world, signed up and everything, and if I try to visit this Offmychest sub that is part of lemmy.world, it only loads one single post from 2014. And yet if I access the same Offmychest sub from my myserv.one account here, I see all the posts. Currently have lemmy.world open in the subreddit on my laptop, via Firefox, so I can confirm that it's not an app issue.
Honestly I dunno anymore. I really wish that this wasn't the only really viable Reddit alternative because I'm getting less and less impressed and more and more frustrated with this fucking place with every moment.
There's also this sort button.
It was hidden by the bright header for me. If it's set to something like top posts for the day, you'll only see today's posts.
It's one of my favorite features because I often limit to the last six or twelve hours.
Nice, thanks. I've actually ended up settling on the Eternity app. I used its Reddit sibling, Infinity for a long time, so I'm finding my way around pretty easily at this point. I'm sure I'll start making use of sort more once I've got a bit more lurking in and I've seen what there is to see.
That's definitely strange. Could you please have a look at your account settings and make sure that in the "language" part you have "Undetermined" selected? That could be the issue.
Thank you for the help here. Turns out that "Undetermined" was selected but "English" was de-selected. And in order to select both, you have to ctrl click them, or else it de-selects the other. But the problem seems to be solved now, so thank you very much.