Some of my favorite communities that are fun and active are:

• !bicycles@lemmy.ca
• !cyberpunk@lemmy.villa-straylight.social
• !foss@beehaw.org
• !games@sh.itjust.works
• !linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
• !steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
• !technology@lemmy.world

r/RedditAlternatives is another one that might be worth mentioning instances on.

They provide games to claim each week as part of the paid Amazon Prime subscription. So they are “free” if you already have another reason to have Prime.

Not enough people know about that very useful website. Although I think that Lemmy should have this kind of complete search as a native feature without needing to go to a third party website.

Yes, posting and interacting is essential to help our communities grow. I used to only lurk but have been trying to post more on here.

A big sore spot is that youtube videos and text posts can’t open in-line on the front page.

I see a book icon under posts that does this when browsing through my instance’s website. Most of the mobile apps are early in development and may not have this feature yet though.

You would have to be looking for it:

Note that the warning appears in the Extensions popup rather than on the Extensions icon, so you wouldn’t know that StopTheMadness was disabled on YouTube unless you opened the popup (or unless you saw the autoplaying videos on YouTube that StopTheMadness would otherwise stop.)

What happens, though, if you pin the extensions to the toolbar for easy access to their settings?

It turns out that when you pin an extension to the toolbar, it no longer appears in the Extensions popup! Consequently, the quarantined domains warning no longer appears in the Extensions popup either. In fact, there’s no longer an Extensions popup: clicking the Extensions toolbar icon simply opens the about:addons page, which doesn’t show the quarantined domains warning anywhere.