This being the default answer for all issues kinda prevents any discussion of any issue that might be unrelated.
The API problem is that you do (ignore the ampersand issue for a moment): curl 'https://lemmy.world/api/v3/community/list?type_=Local&sort=Old&limit=1&page=250010&show_nsfw=true' | jq .
and it will return a response for a page of Communities it can't possibly have. It's a never-ending list that can't be indexed.
The thing, it returns without issue - there's no connectivity problems that DDOS attacks would cause.
lemmy.world has about 12K communities, 11K of which are inactive. These additions means there's now 11,003 inactive ones. For anything that's trying to index the 'lemmyverse', point users to anything interesting, you've just added more useless data to sift through. Every time you post on here, the comments are asking what your deal is. If you don't want to consider the humans, maybe consider the bots?
Viewing your profile, some posts/comments are unspecified, some are Français, some are English.
The languages in 'settings' determine what you see. We all see 'unspecified' stuff, but if you don't have Greek ticked in your settings, you won't see posts made in Greek. (It seems impossible to actually untick 'unspecified' and for the change to go through.)
If depends on what you're using to post (what front-end, app, etc), but they also typically determine what languages appear in the drop-down selection, factored by what languages the Community you're posting in accepts. It's what you choose in this list, the one that's part of process of submitting a comment or a post, that selects the tag for a particular post. It likely defaults to whatever language you made your last post in.
So yes, if you have 'english', 'francais' in your settings, you'll be able to choose between the ones the communities accepts. If it accepts neither, you'd have to choose 'unspecified'.
Searching for 'support' on your instance gave me https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support.
It says it's for 'Lemmy' rather than lemmy.ml specifically, but I guess it'll be read by the right people.
I didn't have the same issues you had. Maybe a browser issue.
I very deliberately phrased my issue as a personal one. I didn't like a particular Community, so I found a different one (joys of the Fediverse and whatnot). I wanted you to do something (in terms of encouraging him to post from literally anywhere else), you disagreed, that was that.
I wouldn't normally advocate in favour of lemmy.world against a specialised instance, but moviesandtv@lemmy.film has lots of posts with a future timestamp, and it does my head in.
You're reframing OP's question. There's no suggestion that I'm the only one with this opportunity - I'm relying on others to plant ideas about the climate or whatever, and focusing on what maybe other people haven't already said (which is a good strategy for posting on Lemmy, incidentally).
But if that's your genuine criticism, that what I posted can't be ranked as the most important thing, well there's plenty of other posts that you should be busy responding to.
'Gender critical' theory. Everyone should have this theory, as originally defined, planted in their head. Men would only associate 'masculinity' with their role in providing semen for procreation. Women would only associate 'femininity' with their role in providing eggs for procreation.
There would be no gender-non-conformity because there would be no ideas about gender to conform to. A minority of men would, as an everyday thing, wear dresses. It would be impossible to verify that someone was a woman or not (short of x-raying their uterus).
The important thing, is that if this happened, the people currently claiming that they're 'gender critical' would lose their freaking minds.
For Music, I've started using Navidrome on my server and Feishin on my desktop (a SubSonic server and client respectively). The music has all been tagged using Beets so there's a nice display.
For Video, I second the AppleTV 4K with Infuse app recommendation. Just accesses my library using NFS, and gets all the metadata from wherever to show an organised library, with a player that can handle anything.
I'm vaguely aware of those influences, but decided to answer OP's question very literally (there's no 'New Hope' book that anyone can check out after seeing the first film)
The mad thing is that it even does this if you try to escape a comment with backticks (Markdown for 'code')
So if you want to say, "this is how you use the Lemmy API:" https://lemmy.world/api/v3/community?jwt="asfsdfsdf"&community="support"
it mashes the ampersand in it
I suppose the only thing is that you wouldn't be able to upload an image to the instance as part of a post - you'd have to upload it somewhere else first, to then be able to refer to it.
For the detractors, register a throwaway account at some random instance, and use that if you want to test it out.
If you're able to properly pore through the source to check it's not stealing anything, then you're capable of scheduling your own posts. The Lemmy API is very simple, it's not rocket science.
This being the default answer for all issues kinda prevents any discussion of any issue that might be unrelated.
The API problem is that you do (ignore the ampersand issue for a moment):
curl 'https://lemmy.world/api/v3/community/list?type_=Local&sort=Old&limit=1&page=250010&show_nsfw=true' | jq .and it will return a response for a page of Communities it can't possibly have. It's a never-ending list that can't be indexed.
The thing, it returns without issue - there's no connectivity problems that DDOS attacks would cause.