I have a picture of Tigger as the Carolina Panthers (NFL football team) logo

famously small towns of Macon, GA (150k population) and Homestead, FL (80k population).

I live in a town of 5k, so I'm sure it's the same.

S20 FE 5G

I've been seriously tempted to swap to a S23+, maybe when black friday rolls around.

No, it's how I said it. I just checked - there are a couple posts from Ruud's beehaw account over there discussing it. If you visit the conversation with an account not from lemmy.world, there are a number of posts that show up that we can't see.

I didn't think this made the beehaw stuff read only. I thought we got a snapshot from the moment they defederated, and it doesn't update after that. .world users can comment, but that's only on the snapshot that .world is storing. as time goes on it veers further and further from the 'real' content stored on beehaw.

as long as the instances are federated, you can interact with communities on other instances. There's alittle extra effort needed to subscribe to a community on another instance, but it's not difficult.

it does mean that you are subject to the uptime of whatever server the community is on. So things like Lemmy.ml that are having difficulties right now affect more than just the users on that instance.