Same here. I’ll check out the Fediverse first then go to reddit if I still need to waste time. No point in quitting early. The protests clearly failed so might as well just accept that.
Hopefully their numbers drop dramatically next month.
Looks like you can follow communities by pasting their URLs in the search bar on Mastodon. The communities show up as if they’re users, but it looks like you can follow them and I guess reply as you normally would. Like you can follow this community by searching this URL: https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted
I also did the Ansible setup.
Are you subscribing to communities? I think searching just pulls something like 20 posts but nothing else. Everything starts getting pulled in when someone subscribes.
I also had some issues with pictures but the problems just kind of resolved themselves. Maybe try resetting the server and see what happens.
I also immediately replaced my weather app. Never heard of this one. Very impressed.