A Canadian friend introduced me to putting malt vinegar on my “fish and chips”. Was one of those eye opening “why haven’t I been doing this all my life!” moments.

Try kagi search! It actually has a “lense” or search option that lets you directly search federated services like lemmy: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/lenses.html

Also note that these are spaces and not rooms. They work just a bit different depending on your client.

The link for the main lemmy dev chats can be found in the readme.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

This should be the matrix link: https://matrix.to/#/#lemmy-space:matrix.org

If I remember right, there was a pretty big change in how pictrs(photo management) worked with lemmy after 0.19.3. There were a few breaking changes and Postgres updates that would take an instance down for a while as well. Not sure if that’s the reason why but it made my instance stay on 0.19.3 for longer than it should have.

You can search instances and communities with https://lemmyverse.net/communities