I admin this stupid site.
I run my own private instance. I’ve had 5 requests to join in the past 24 hours. 2 of them seemed legit, but the other 3 had suspiciously similar sentences. They all had somewhat incorrect wording. All mentioned “the current situation at Reddit” and also all used another word that I’m forgetting right this moment.
I denied even the ones that seemed real because I’m not trying to host a bunch of randos and have to worry about moderation and stuff for them.
Pretty sure it’s a bug. Some of the smaller instances I’ve subscribed to show “subscribed” right away. The larger instances seem to show pending, but as far as I can tell it works as expected.
I agree that the idea of federated Reddit (Lemmy/Kbin) is better but the user experience is currently not better.
Granted, that’s a “newness” problem that should get easier with time but to jump from relatively straightforward Reddit to a more complicated federated system is a leap in complexity a lot of people do not want to deal with.
The real driver for change will be when there isn’t anything interesting to look at or the entire thing is overrun with boys, ads, and trolls. The loss of mods might actually be the eventual downfall of Reddit.
When you apply a color to the base computer, it will change the icon you see to the same color.
I always changed mine to orange so they would stand out a bit more and be easier to find.
This post helped me realize that my Memmy client hadn’t updated in a bit, so thanks for that!
I had to open TestFlight and accept the terms again, not sure why.