Most communities on other instances (especially lemmy.ml, but most other instances seem affected) seem still desperately empty and dead when viewed from here, despite vibrant activity as seen directly from there.
Are there still big issues getting new and/or post lost during the version desynchronisation?
Dunnow if it is related, but everything is just worse this the upgrade than it was before. Now everything takes forever to load, responses take longer, pictures don’t load the correct way. So for me this was a downgrade in my experience here or what the Germans call a “Verschlimmbesserung” (making it worse by trying to improve).
I bet it’s just the dramatic uptick in traffic. It takes quite a bit more money and effort to make a highly available and performant service, which most of these are side projects or paid for by a normal person’s income which can’t compete with a Corp.