I’m a professional C++ developer. I started with a Visual Basic intro to programming class my freshman year of high school, took a few more of those, then went to college for computer engineering.

Now I work on embedded boiler controls.

I had to look this up too after they started blowing up the feeds on every instance. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=r%2F196

It appears to be a popular general meme community where everyone must post something, so there’s a lot of content.

Thanks for making this community. One of the things I’ve missed most from my reddit feed was a steady stream of cool art.

Yep it’s a known bug in all Lemmy instances right now, mobile web and desktop. If you use an app like Jerboa it doesn’t happen.

Agreed, Fedia.io was mostly working this morning but at some point federation just stalled.

Yep, thread based communities are shared perfectly between Lemmy and kbin. Other than currently the largest kbin community is having federation issues due to the influx of users