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Also on calckey: @jill@nightcity.bar
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I can’t answer them all but I’ll try the ones I can as a solo/small instance
I don’t know about suggested, but I’m someone who likes to tinker and look behind the scenes a little so that’s why I made my own instance, plus being in control of everything. Also having my name @va11halla.bar is pretty cool
The account is gone, no migration. Part of why I made my own instance is because my old was deleted. Due to federation you can still find content you posted at least, assuming it was federated beforehand
You’ll have to federate everything yourself if its your own instance. The all tab takes into account the subscriptions of everyone on the instance, so you’ll see a lot less if you have a lot less users on your instance. The local tab takes in to account communities on that instance only.
Try Connect or my personal favourite atm is Liftoff.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect&hl=en_US
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.liftoffapp.liftoff&pli=1
God I love their designs. Also Arlecchino my beloved!
I’m actually playing it now! If you’ve played it before and want a bit of a change, but without changing everything (and are on PC), I recommend The Midnight Ride. Read through the mods it adds to see if it’s for you, but it all felt good to me mostly. The power armour changes are very nice for me. You can add other mods on top of this too if you wish (Fourville and Sim Settlements 2 are two I’ve added on top of as well and also recommend).
My old instance was deleted by the admin and all the posts are still possible to reach via other instances. Well maybe some got lost that maybe didn’t get fetched by others, I’m not sure, but when I wanted to go back and save the posts that were “lost” they were there at least.
It was a fun experience trying to get to all work. I did originally try on my raspberrypi but I ended up just giving up on that due to the issues you mentioned. But it’s nice to have my own instance, and slowly populating the all feed with new subscriptions and well I owned the domain va11halla.bar I had to use it for my name.