I don’t have an answer for you, but maybe you and your friends could get together and start your own? The beauty of the fediverse and all that.

Login issue reportedly fixed with 0.18.2 update: Lemmy.world updated to 0.18.2

As @flloxlbox said, it will either happen organically or users will decide to merge communities, like the Android community did. It’s the way federation works, it’s not something that can be forced on people.

I’ve had the same issue. A poster in another thread suggested selecting “English” in the Select Language drop-down menu before hitting the Reply button. It may be a coincidence, but that has worked for me to prevent the eternal spinner.

You’re welcome. Used to see rocks like that all the time when I lived at the beach, sometimes with the clam shells still embedded.

It’s a rock that’s been holed by boring clams: https://carnegiemnh.org/not-boring-clams/

If you want to know what kind or rock it is, I can’t help you there.