But the new users can join any lemmy server and still interact with everyone, so ideally the load would be distributed throughout all the instances instead of making one of them overloaded.

That's a good point! I think we usually hear about millions of users and don't realize the scale you need to serve the thousands that'd be in each instance...

I'm trying to be more active on lemmy than on reddit where I just lurked like you, so that's been a change. But I'm having a great time! Also, spinning up an instance took some trial and error but it was a lot of fun :)

To add another example here, I saw the same behavior on this post: https://lemmy.ml/post/1136642. Right now it has 43 comments on lemmy.ml but over on my instance (link) there's only 18.

It's also unclear to me why some posts are not showing up, since the new ones (4h ago) appear, some old ones (7d ago) too, but some in the middle (6d, 5d ago) do not, which doesn't really make sense...

Some of them do! Not my favorite team though... Atletico Mineiro had for a long time an official calendar, but it sucked! They had an event that showed up everyday called "Team's Practice" -- which I put up with for years! -- but a couple of years back they just stopped updating the calendar, which led me into looking for alternatives. So this is more like an option in case the team you root for doesn't have an official calendar you can subscribe to.

I've seen this post today showing users on each instance: https://beehaw.org/post/466182 It's not automated, but the op said they'd post updates too :)

"minor changes"

There's also other alternatives like https://fixtur.es/en/, but they're usually limited for teams outside the main competitions (e.g., Europe's top divisions).

For example, the Brazilian team I support (Atletico Mineiro) plays its regional tournament (Campeonato Mineiro) from Jan until mid/late Feb, which doesn't usually show up in these services. Since Atletico doesn't have an official calendar, for 2-3 months I don't really get the schedule using something like fixtur.es. For the 2023 season:

• First game according to fixtur.es on Feb 22: https://fixtur.es/en/team/atletico-mineiro
• First actual game on Jan 21: https://www.transfermarkt.us/clube-atletico-mineiro/spielplan/verein/330

Footcal tries to fix this by using a source that has more tournaments than others sources. I basically developed it for it to work for Atletico's calendar, but thought it could be helpful for others too :)

I usually play multiplayer games more, unspottable, wilmot's warehouse, and moving out are pretty fun!

Single player, the last one I played was my friend Pedro which was also pretty good!

From a quick scroll through my subscriptions I think these are the ones I'm most looking forward to: r/dynastyff, r/futebol, all the cat related ones, r/diwhy, r/atbge, r/gtbae, r/outoftheloop, r/unraid, r/writingprompts, r/youdontsurf.

mathler!

I commented mathler which seems like a simpler version, but this looks awesome!

Some of our favorites are Catan, power grid, ticket to ride, azul, and bananagrams.

Awesome! Subscribed :)

If we get 8-10 more we can create a lemmy league :)