Your sweet potatoes are looking great!

I’ve had the same issue and it was bad enough that I thought I was having problems on WG.

As it turns out something about Lemmy is causing a lot of hang ups and timeouts on Boost. Unfortunately I’m tired of waiting for the next update and I’ve moved to Jerboa for the time being as it is MUCH faster for me.

FWIW I was seeing slowdowns and lockups on Thunder recently out of nowhere too so it may not be confined to Boost. Jerboa does not seem to be affected, but may be lacking some of the features you like from Boost.

Hopefully the app is updated soon and hasn’t been abandoned.

For anyone else who was confused about the context, the translation of the text accompanying the OP helps. Emphasis mine.

Here’s someone’s hand, here’s someone’s head, here’s someone else’s head, here’s Denchik resting peacefully, we’ll cover his heel so as not to hurt him. And here’s my squirrel and Frol chilit, in my place, asshole." This is more shocking than a horror movie. A Russian serviceman with the call sign Sam showed how with one comrade he survives in position in a narrow irrigation pipe where the corpses of 6 other Russian servicemen openly lie and decompose. A resting bed is at the back of the pipe and they have to crawl over the corpses to observe. Such “movement” is filmed by the Russian military to confirm their position, otherwise they will be shot by their commanders as they withdraw. Obviously, the assault group was sent to an area that is shot by Ukrainians, it is impossible to go forward or backward in clear weather, a wounded man who tried to leave was immediately eliminated. Under such conditions it should not be surprising that Russian fighters commit suicide en masse. Please help identify the area - very similar to the area of the village of Spirne.

Translated with DeepL https://www.deepl.com/app/

Mate these ghouls literally rolled back Roe v Wade right in front of the world’s face. I don’t think they care what we think or how much coverage they get. They are immune to the consequences of their actions and thus will continue to act this way.

Don’t know, I don’t engage with that nonsense.

Editing to add:

Let’s not pretend there aren’t shitheads on every side of every argument. If people are behaving in ways that aren’t what the home instances want, they should be dealt with by their instance admins and moderation. Doesn’t matter if you eat meat, plants, or paint chips. We don’t have to be like this, it’s a choice.

not sure what we can do about it.

Discourage it instead of fanning the flames. Take a stance against bad faith actors and trolls, the same shit we’ve always done.

I think out of desperation to grow and thrive a lot of things are being let go and ignored. As always, this will only lead to things deteriorating until the place is detestable like Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Instead of embracing the things we can do better than those platforms we’ve carved out a space on many of the major instances for the worst of these people, and that’s a mistake IMO.

The problem is that toxicity leeches out across the fediverse which stifles growth as more and more negativity makes it to front pages around the web. I don’t have the solution either but I do think more accountability is needed for users and moderators across the fediverse.

All of them are working as intended, can’t ask for much more than that. I don’t think it’s healthy to get caught up in subscribers and all that too much. Things are generally trending positively, good enough for me.

There’s been a disappointing uptick in negative interactions on the fediverse lately (IMO) and that’s more disturbing to me than community numbers. Some (again, IMO) questionable decisions are being made in some of the larger places on the fediverse but a lot of it is users taking it as a challenge or a right of passage to get banned from communities or instances so they can meme and rant about it. It’s silly behavior and we can do better than this.

I’m excited to see a new power unit debut. GM has a long racing pedigree but F1 chases perfection to a degree that is arguably unmatched. Will they hit the ground running or stumble? Time will tell.

Maybe the large transport vehicles don’t have to slow as much (in theory) since there’s a longer run up and a less severe kink to make the turn? Purely a guess.

Wow.

Wowowowow.

It looks delectable.

There is no way their policy is enforceable without the .world mods being the ultimate deciders over what is fact, fiction, and acceptably dubious. Considering how that situation looks today I only expect it to get worse.

They are effectively removing moderators from their own community by overriding their decisions about what communities can and should be about and what is acceptable within those limits. Are the world mods capable of policing every community to make this new policy work? They seem to think so. Are these people who should be trusted to make those decisions? I don’t believe so.

As the largest instance they are throwing their weight around to try and define what Lemmy is, not supporting the users that are actually here making it what it is today. Instead of dealing with their own shitty users and behaviors, they’ve told us all we must learn to accept them because the truth isn’t real and we should all just accept it.

Fuck directly off with that.

Good fucking luck.

Thunder has been progressing nicely IMO. I’ve been trialing most of the other popular Lemmy clients and that’s my current favorite to replace Boost if we don’t see an update sometime soon.

https://lemmy.world/c/thunder_app

!thunder_app@lemmy.world

!thunder_app@lemmy.world

You will be pleasantly surprised to know that many things from the grocery store are sproutable!

Yeah I probably tricked myself into thinking most of the stuff at the store has been modified to prevent sprouting, etc. I know there are some things locally that are like this so my assumption was it was probably being done at all levels. Clearly I was wrong.

You know your water better than I do, but I think when sprouting the water is doing a lot less than when growing a photosynthesizing plan (with true leaves).

Right! A big part of this experiment for me was discovering how long the lentils can go without feeding or specialized care. I will not use my tap water for sprouting seeds, full stop. It’s too unpredictable to be trusted on delicate and irreplaceable plants so I always start them with distilled water. After they are established they can handle the fluctuating parameters a bit better. Now that I know the lentil greens aren’t going to go off just because the water isn’t perfect I’m very happy!

There must always be chaos.

I can’t say for certain but the fediverse is prone to behave unpredictability at times. You’re probably better off thinking about Lemmy as a collection of websites rather than one central hub like reddit or more traditional sites.

Instances go up and down all the time as well. Sometimes when a site goes down for maintenance (and probably other things like sync issues) the subscriber numbers will fluctuate because a bunch of them are on a site that “doesn’t exist” for a short time while it’s being worked on.

Everything you do on Lemmy takes longer than what you’re probably used to on a more traditional website too. Your posts to your local instance should be instantaneous but sometimes it can take minutes, hours, or even days for those actions to fully federate to other places. This is true of posts, replies, votes, and subscriptions.

There is also defederation which can cause the behavior you described. You are on one of the largest instances on Lemmy and some people have soured on it and its users. It’s entirely possible some of your subscribers were on an instance that defedderated with lemmy.world or something.

TLDR: You are likely overthinking the impact of bots and putting too much importance on subscription numbers. Make sure the community you care about can actually reach the people who might be interested and hope for the best.

Only slightly related but maybe you’d be interested -

I put together a help post for new Lemmy users on my instance describing how to find and join new places on Lemmy. Maybe these resources will help you understand more about how Lemmy works and how you can get your community off the ground.

https://walledgarden.xyz/post/1600683

Alpine doing Alpine things.

Bots are not nearly as widespread on Lemmy as they are on reddit. You’re letting your frustration with a slow growing community turn into “old man yells at cloud.”

The main use of bots is for federating. They join communities but don’t interact with posts at all. Even that requires an instance admin to set up so it’s not like there are thousands of them or something. Bedsides that the rest of them are mostly news and information shares.

Lemmy is much smaller than reddit and has more barriers to entry and community growth. Expect it to take months to get a community off the ground.

It seems like you don’t actually understand how to get your community posts to more people.

Lemmy doesn’t spread content to all other instances by default. The whole process is pretty clunky and takes far more effort than it should to promote new places.

Have you announced the community on !newcommunities@lemmy.world or anything? Discovery on Lemmy leaves a lot to be desired in its current form.