I feel like it's solid. Something you would find in a cafeteria where it gets used every day. It's got a short reach and isn't super heavy, but if I had to use it for self defence it wouldn't come out any worse for wear.

This sounds stressful to me. I am the complete opposite, I need to finish a book (or series) completely before I can move on to something else.

Arches National Park in Utah

Hah, yeah it feels strange for the wildfires to be out east for a change!

Just the default camera app on a Pixel 6

Also soda for me. I grew up in the big red MO/IL bubble.

When lit, the depths are fine. But there's something about the absolute darkness and (since it's a new game and I've avoided spoilers) having no idea what could be down there that raises the hair on my neck.

Also, I had terrible framerates down there initially so I felt extra helpless/unable to respond :)

I asked in the midwest.social matrix chat and the admin there seems to have fixed something that now allows me to sign up.

I was under the impression that those were the same "post" but when I'm viewing it on lemmy.ml it's the same post as the original on midwest.social but it's been federated to lemmy.ml.

Here is the post on lemmy.ml - it says that it's !stlouis@midwest.social, not !stlouis@lemmy.ml:

HERE is the cross post/duplicate post you made on lemmy.ml/c/stlouis. It does also have two comments now, but not the same two comments as the "original" on midwest.social:

I think one of the good parts of federation is that your post on a different instance shows up on this instance (theoretically with comments if I understand how it's supposed to work), but obviously the downside is that communities can be fragmented (as there are now two discussions for "Calling all St. Louisans!".

There's been some other discussion around fragmented communities (i.e. which is the REAL c/stlouis). I wonder if it's worth deciding i.e. that midwest.social/c/stlouis is the "official" Lemmy St Louis community and having lemmy.ml/c/stlouis pin a post that directs people to the midwest.social/c/stlouis community? I just tested and I can cross-post from lemmy.ml to midwest.social which is pretty cool.

FWIW, I am not able to sign up to midwest.social - after filling out the info in the sign up page, I hit the submit button and it spins forever. I don't see a network request in dev tools or anything in the console to indicate an issue.

Also, (and I'm not sure if this is a bug or just some part of the fediverse that I don't fully understand yet) comments don't seem to be getting federated properly? For example, here is a post that has two comments when viewed on midwest.social but no comments when viewed via lemmy.ml.

Do these different apps use a common protocol so that they're interoperable, or are they all building competing standards?

I'm relatively new to the fediverse - what "interesting features and functions" does kbin offer?