Yeah that’s what I figured but just wanted to get other opinions since its been most of the week. It wasn’t nearly this bad when I first started using the platform but I guess the “official reddit exodus” really took its toll even with the big server upgrades. I’m looking at other instances, but it seems like any instance that isn’t the big ten or so are pretty dead with very few communities. I also want to be federated with lemmygrad and not exploding heads and that seems kinda tough to find though I could stand to look harder.

I tried that and another app right now but it’s telling me that my password is wrong! So I’m nervous to try and reset it right now Guess I’ll try again tomorrow sigh

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That just happened to me as I was going to try a new app because I’ve barely been able to interact with lemmy.ml at all the last week due to what seem like bugs. So hopefully it’ll be a short lived issue

Oooo yeah good point

Congrats! Thick leather gloves are fantastic for thorns, so that’s what I would recommend. I’m a glutton for punishment, though, and when I don’t have my leather gloves I’ll still dig through thorny plants, albeit veeeery gently. That’s normally if I’m just pruning small patches of blackberry or roses, though and also I’m a masochist lol.

If a ton of the thorny plants are blackberry, it might be a good idea to hire someone to clear it. I’ve never done so but they are voracious growers. You may know this, but any branch that touches the ground can put off new roots and grow even more and so on. Unless you can dig out all of the roots, just going through and cutting is a losing game, unless you get it cut back to where it’s manageable and you don’t mind pruning regularly.

As for garden clippings, composting is the way. You do want to make sure that you aren’t getting any weeds in your compost, though, otherwise they will profilerate and your compost soil will just spread more weeds. Again, you may know this, but for browns, save any unbleached paper that you can. Torn up cardboard, newspaper, napkins,coffee filters, paper grocery bags, chopped up twigs/wood chips/shavings, dryer Lint. If you can shred your brown foliage that’s great as well. If there is a farm/feed store somewhat close to you, you can buy straw for fairly cheap and that will last forever depending on the size of the compost pile.

Also, if you can look into native flowers for your area and scatter a ton of seed once you’ve cleared out weeds, they can help to eventually keep the weed population under control. Clover helps with this, too and can be good ground cover. Just wanna make sure it’s not invasive in your area and it doesn’t choke out your natives

This was happening to me on jerboa with my lemmy.ml account for a week or so; I think the app is still just wigging out due to the influx of users. I’d just wait it out and use the browser on mobile and it will probably come around as I don’t have issues with that now. Or try reinstalling?

I think lemmy.ml was getting money from NLnet by completing Milestones, but now that they’re scrambling to handle bugs and doing Q&A constantly I think they’re losing out on that funding. At least that’s what Dessalines reported, I believe

I created my first account on beehaw, but when i realized that they blocked this instance I created a lemmy.ml account. I engaged with someone on that post who was surprised that hate speech was being thrown around here. I said “it’s because theyre marxist leninist, go look for yourself” and they were so confused because there was no hate speech to be found. Essentially they were like “um I don’t agree with MLs on a lot of things, but they aren’t nazis. So what’s the issue?” So I’m positive that there are people being turned away who otherwise would want to interact with y’all.

It’s pretty fucked that they are equating discourse here to hate speech because of course people aren’t going to do their own investigating. They will just assume that yall are planning the next white uprising and flinging the F slur around.