yea it should just be a matter of searching your username, but you need to be logged in to search remote instances (they don't want anonymous requests spamming the network)

what's your Pixelfed username? I can pull it up if you want

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for the info, I'll give it a go. It's great that we can link to bluesky but not necessarily be a part of them.

On another note, don't you think it's a little weird that someone from world is saying to not follow small instances? I'm not sure I understand bringing them up in the first place.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

On another note, don’t you think it’s a little weird that someone from world is saying to not follow small instances?

Where is that comment? I didn't see it. Maybe they're thinking back when it was really hard to get new communities federated, but it's not so bad these days, and even the medium sizes instances already have tons of communities already federated.

anyways I think we should've give people too much trouble as long as they're joining the Fediverse lol, they can move instances as they get a feel for it

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

I've personally had an issue with a world admin in the past, that's why I picked up on it. I don't seem to be having as much issues lately, so maybe they've chilled. It's the advertising part that kind of bugs me for their instance instead of Lemmy in general:

Really if you're telling someone about it, you just tell them one of the bigger, better instances. Don't send them to that "pick a server" thing. I don't know if I'm allowed to link it here, but the name of the software and the word "world" with a period in between is a fine server for both Lemmy and Mastodon.

I went from a heavy, daily reddit user to making half a dozen comments here in a year. All my activity is now over there, outside of search results.

It's by u/Serinus

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 14 hours ago

"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users

https://discuss.online/ if you want a server located in the USA (content is still accessible from any server, the most difference latency)
https://sopuli.xyz/ if you want a server located in the EU
https://vger.app/ if you want an app

Feel free if you have any questions"

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The idea of picking a bigger server is better for new people, but idk how I feel about them advertising only their server.

The average person hits a server choice and gives up so it probably does help add more people.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

but idk how I feel about them advertising only their server.

That's exactly the part. If they had said pick a bigger server, than I would have been 100%.