I used Jabber with some people I knew from a tech forum and it was actually nice, plenty of clients to choose too.
The thing is, I couldn’t get any of my actual friends to join, they were all over IRC / MSN and some of them still on ICQ, so I didn’t last that much.
DDG is great, I’ve been using it for a while now, but I recently learned that I can also send mails from my main account as a @duck.com address and now I’m in love.
I had the same issue browsing a lemmy.world community from kbin.social, looks empty to me from kbin except for this message:
The magazine from the federated server may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.
So I checked the original instance and there were already some threads there, then I created a new thread from kbin and it worked, it appears on both kbin and lemmy, but from kbin I still can only see my own thread, not the rest.
Oh well, I guess it’s a matter of time, @ernest is working really hard to fix everything and so far apart from a couple of things it has been a pretty smooth experience for me.
Yeah, this grinds my gears. I use to comment my code when I’m working on my personal projects, then at the office I have to waste time trying to decipher my boss’s code because he won’t comment absolutely anything.
That plus the ridiculous deadlines means that I don’t have time to comment my own code, fast forward several months later without working on a particular project and now I have to decipher his and my own code.
One day he actually had the nerve to say to me: ‘Yeah, you should comment your code’. How I refrained of commiting murder that day I don’t know.