Thanks! Yeah, Lemmy allows for GIFs. Maybe they shouldn’t, because of people like me :)

I don’t see a way to simply lock it down as an admin. I see “Remove” and “Purge community” which both seem to be too nuclear, I assume they’d delete the comm history too.

Lemmy could do a lot better job of showing that a community is on a dead instance. Here’s an issue about warning when posting to defederated instances, which could be considered the same issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2680

Was just talking with a friend that downloaded a Mastodon app a while back when Twitter was bought by Elon, encountered the “Choose a server” bit, and bailed after choice paralysis. They’re technical and have a doctorate in Computer Science so it’s not like they couldn’t figure it out, but there’s something in the human psyche where most people don’t want to make choices like that. They’re on Bluesky now and think its great.

IMO sites like https://pixelfed.org/how-to-join and https://join-lemmy.org/ should just have a normal sign up flow, and load balance between all servers that opt in. Looks like that’s going to happen for Pixelfed:

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113830788279211715

It’ll make some people unhappy, but that’s just how you get “normies” onto the Fediverse.

I’m a little biased, but I like it here 😁 Going to plug !AskUSA@discuss.online, for casual conversation about US-related topics.