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I got started with !asklemmy@lemmy.ml, just 3 posts so far. I'd like to see askhistorians & askscience communities gaining more traction.

Perhaps, but pixelfed.social is said to be fine with the traffic as mentioned here. Did you try after some time? Were you able to get past it?

The apps are listed on the official website. The official app is in public beta, but I hope it gets a public release soon. You can follow @pixelfed@mastodon.social on mastodon for updates. There are also 3rd party apps, but I haven't tried any.

Yes, but things can change. Stories of Mastodon and Lemmy are inspiring. When Reddit backslash happened, Lemmy was already there as a good alternative for people to switch to. So was the case of Mastodon with the Twitter exodus. It's good that we've Pixelfed, it may be just a matter of time.

Stories feature is there. But I haven't used it myself, so I can't tell more about it.

India recently introduced Digital Personal Data Protection Act. But, unlike what it sounds, it does more harm than good to the privacy of citizens.

Some of the most contentious issues include the wide-ranging exemptions to the government and its agencies, the dilution of powers of the data protection board, and amendment of the Right to Information Act, that rights groups say will significantly weaken the law.

https://www.reuters.com/article/india-tech-lawmaking-idUKL8N38W0JR

I've heard that in such situations one can drop such docs, with address, in any postbox nearby and the postal worker will deliver them. I've never tried this myself & I don't know if people actually do that, but sounded like a good idea to me.

Anyway, I understand that the underlying issue is more important and finding any immediate solution alone won't help. It's much more important to spread awareness about the importance of privacy.

• https://www.privacytools.io
• https://www.socialcooling.com

You're enjoying the benefits of federation, by having the ability to grow "your" community with people across the fediverse rather than with only the people on the same instance as yours. So that's the price you have to pay. Also, in the long run, communities will grow naturally based on the quality of the content and not just because they have popular names!

Is it crashing randomly? For me the crashes are somewhat reproducible. For eg. it crashes when I try to load comments of a post from notifications. It also crashes profile tab is selected from the bottom navbar, but I can live with it for now.

By the way, I'm on the latest version (v0.0.8). Please note that the app is still in beta, but the good news is that the dev is very active.

Infinity for Lemmy has this option. It's a fork of Lemmy for Reddit, modern and very customizable. It's still in alpha stage and is not on official f-droid repo yet (available on IzzyOnDroid f-droid repo), but still working great for me so far. Worth trying.