My apologies, I deal with chronic pain as well and disability as well. I guess my shitty interactions on reddit because of it has me assuming the absolute worst from people out the gate.
It's not my specific life situation, but to make such a generalization isn't helpful either. It's dismissive and rude to people with disabilities and pain related conditions. It's like telling a depressed person to just try being happy instead of sad. I'm not trying to be rude, I'm just saying that it's a thing a lot of people with disabilities and pain based conditions hear and it only serves to rub salt in the wound of dealing with their issues and to please be mindful of that moving forward. (I'm sorry if I seemed hostile, that was not my intention. I was trying to inform.)
Pain is a signal that something is wrong with your body, so you should be ideally figuring out why something is wrong instead of ignoring it if it's consistent.
I'm sorry, but this just isn't good advice especially if this post is referring to arthritis, ME/CFS or other autoimmune conditions which is where most moderate to severe joint pain stems from. Arthritis is a debilitating autoimmune condition that requires consistent medical treatment to address the underlying autoimmune issues that causes it. Alongside that, moving and forcing yourself to be active with persistent joint pain will only worsen the overall damage and inflammation that autoimmune conditions cause towards joints.
The API is basically a means to link external services and apps (and bots) to lemmys backend. In this case of what counts for API issues, is that all lemmy instances have a hidden web page that broadcasts its currently created community feed as well as other data too. The creator of lemmyverse.net (I'm a friend of his, he's super nice) has a bot that goes to each lemmy instance it can and finds that hidden page and compiles the data it can find. For whatever reason, right now lemmy.worlds just doesn't compile properly as it will scan the first 1-98 page of communities off that page. But since there's ~9k communities that lemmy.world has, it should actually be around 180 pages. And once it hits that final page, it just flips out since it can't find more and it starts to cause issues with lemmyverse.net entirely and its ability to display other instances. It was disabled temporarily, but will likely be reinstated as things improve. There's suspicion it has to do with the DDOS attacks lemmy.world is experiencing, but we aren't sure and it's understandable why they won't clarify if it is or not since going fully into detail how they are being DDOSed breaks ethical disclosure.
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My apologies, I deal with chronic pain as well and disability as well. I guess my shitty interactions on reddit because of it has me assuming the absolute worst from people out the gate.