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lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead

Over at https://join-lemmy.org/ , when someone clicked on "Join a Server", they are presented with a list of instances, it's not that obvious that these are cross-accessible (yes, the homepage mentioned it, but not here), and people are bound to look for one with the most users.

Perhaps, add a simple TLI5 explanation/diagram explaining how Lemmy works on https://join-lemmy.org/instances .

(The documents are also too wordy for most people to care.)

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what's your goto source for news?

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It's free with ads, the ads appear in fixed location, so I just mentally ignored them. I started Blogtrottr back when Google Reader died, I forgot if I have tried other methods, but for so many years, there have been no problems, so that's no reason for me to move.

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Kbin upvote vs Lemmy upvvote

This reminds me that a few days ago, while I was on my Mastodon account, I "boosted" a Kbin message that was a reply to a Lemmy post. Just what did my Mastodon boost translated into?

EDIT: Now I realised that I'm replying to a Kbin from Lemmy. Confusing as f.