But then a single instance could lock out all other instances from having that community name. Even if that instance didn’t actually have a good community.

Exactly how I feel. Getting on here, learning the ins and outs of Lemmy and the Federated system, and being involved is something I look forward to doing during the day. As opposed to the mindless scroll just to fill time.

![email protected] in the search bar should bring it up

Yeah mine lately randomly floods with what looks like an entire German instance’s feed, and then switch back to normal as I scroll

I can’t speak to the specifics of transferring from Java to C#, but as someone who recently had to re-learn/catch up on it and Dotnet for a job transition I can say what helped me after not touching it for nearly a decade.

I found a few people on YouTube that did project walkthroughs, and I followed along with them and built out their examples. I used C# 10 In A Nutshell as a reference when I felt I needed to dig deep on the various things the videos touched on or that I knew I’d be needing for the code base I was inheriting. I was preferential to Tim Corey, mostly because a lot of his videos felt up-to-date with the latest technologies and were easy to follow. He also has courses designed to be a boot camp for getting up to speed, I believe, on his website if that is an option for you.

I’m still figuring it out too, but I think the idea is you subscribe to all of the similar copies across the instances so it all shows up on your feed. Over time, the best of the best will rise to the top sort of thing.