Some personal blogs that I like (mine included), all of them are indie and as far as I know they all are maintained by a single person (so they don't post several times a day!):
Two websites that I use quite a lot to find cool personal blogs/RSS feeds:
Ye olde blogroll is a hand-curated list of interesting personal blogs in English
The IndieWeb webring is a webring where people with indie blogs (ie. no substacks, no big websites, etc.) can sign up to get more visibility, it's a real treasure trove
Music: I have a few CDs that are in need of a CD player and also have Jellyfin (no server, only local) to listen to my downloaded music on my TV (which mostly comes from Bandcamp). For my phone, I have the Bandcamp app, it's basic but it does what I need from it.
Podcasts: via Podcast Addict on my phone (unfortunately no browser version, but that's gotten less important with the years as I spend less time on my computer and the time I do spend requires enough focus that I don't listen to podcasts), during sports sessions (podcast for warmup & cooldown, audiobook for the session itself), commutes, walking, cleaning & cooking.
Sounds like an issue with Jerboa more than with Lemmy tbh if you can't properly block a community. Log in to the website and block the community there.
I really liked this read! I blog, and I like my blog, but sometimes get stressed out because I feel like nobody's reading it (I've removed all analytics on purpose because I used to get obsessed with them). Blogging for the simple act of blogging, and not for engagement, is the best!
Nooot as legal as the other alternatives here, https://libgen.is has a gigantic catalogue (if you know what you're looking for) to download ebooks from.
As said above, likes are virtually useless. They're more like "noticeable bookmarks". Mastodon etiquette is to boost rather than like, if you enjoy a toot, and that's also how it was when the Twitter timeline was chronological and didn't include likes, a very long time ago.
I'm annoyed at calling people who dislike an app and choose another website "refugees"
I'm happy that we're going to have more activity
I hope more instances will be built and maintained, because I don't think the large number of new members can be moderated effectively if they keep flocking to the same handful of instances
When in doubt, I hope moderators will be too strict rather than not enough, especially in the beginning to make sure the behavioural expectations are very clear
Some personal blogs that I like (mine included), all of them are indie and as far as I know they all are maintained by a single person (so they don't post several times a day!):