One thing you should do is grab your data for easy moving, you haven’t already.

Assuming you’re using the default Lemmy web UI (not Voyager, or Photon, or a mobile app, or whatever), click on your username in the top right, and select “Settings”.

On the settings page, there’s a section called “Import/Export Settings”. Click the “Export” button and let your browser download the file.

Then, when you switch instances, you can go into the same Settings page on the new instance, select the file you downloaded, and hit “Import” and you will automatically be resubscribed to the communities you subscribed to.

Reboot

It may not be the answer I gave at the time, but it’s the best balance now of “liked it as a kid” and “like it as an adult”

I want to add to this. I’m not a psychologist, but I have heard a couple times about the term “third place”. It’s this concept that most people have a “place where they live”, a “place where they work”, and then a “place where they socialize”. It has been theorized that the modern working-age population is having trouble with stress and mental health in large part due to the dearth of “third places”.

The “third place” can be, for example, a restaurant or bar that you frequent (think the pub from the TV show Cheers), a book club, a sports club, or, crucially, a church or place of worship.

For Christianity at least, knowing that you were going to see and socialize with the same group of people (who share at least 1 major interest in common with you) every Sunday is apparently quite good for mental health. So, although I am no proponent of certain Western religions in general, I do think their decline has contributed to some of the mental health crises. How much? I cannot say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place

Damn, I hoped no one would notice that yet.

Informally, I am saving the bare minimum - even IP addresses are transient in my logs, no tracking, and profile deletion is total and immediate, but I don’t think that’s “legalese” enough

Both issues have been noted, and I will investigate them ASAP

I don’t suppose you would be able to share the OPML file with me?

As in, you’d like to run your own instance? Fair, I didn’t expect that would be the first thing people would want to do, but I can make some better README docs for self-hosting

Aye, I’ll stick with the defaults for now, at least until I have a bot problem (which is in some ways a good problem to have 😋)

Noted, and I see what you’re saying. The text needs higher contrast in the read state

Ugh, first impression matter immensely, and I dropped that ball, eh? :(

For what it’s worth, I’ve set the captcha library back to its default settings, so hopefully the defaults are less obnoxious. The library I’m using is pretty popular, so I was guessing that bots would have fully trained their way around it by now, and so I chose some slightly less obvious fonts to put up a tiny bit of a barrier, but ya know, the balance of “legible for humans” and “hard for bots” is very hard. And I am no expert on captcha design

After extended sessions of any of the Telltale adventures (Walking Dead, etc), I would spend about 10 minutes post-game with the sense that real-life conversations were like, scripted, and I was navigating by selecting the best option.

Arguably, not a wrong assessment of life, but it feels really gamified when affected

I only know a couple singles, but I get the sense Primus is pretty wacky

Earl Grey with honey and oat milk. Orange Pekoe/English Breakfast with sweetener and oat milk. Chai with milk. Or a straight herbal tea