There is a UI bug where if you put in the wrong password it just spins forever (no error returned to the user)..

Please try to reset your password. That solves login issues for me most of the time.

Steps to do that:

• Put the email address you signed up with into the login field and click Forgot Password.
• check your email
• click the reset password link
• set your new password back to what it was supposed to be
• try to log in

If all that fails, try again in a different browser.

Again, there are issues on the lemmy-ui GitHub page for password and wonky login behavior.

To subscribe to outside communities on the instance that you signed up on, go to the search bar and type in the name of the community @ instance with an exclamation at the beginning.

For example, if you want to follow the Jokes community on lemmy.ml, you would type into your search bar: !jokes@lemmy.ml. It will pop up and you click on it, which will take you to the community. Click on where it says sidebar and you should see the plus sign. You do this for all the communities you want to sign up for that are not apart of your instance.

As long as there is some traffic then I prefer a community being reasonably small. I avoided reddit for so long because I would look at a post and then see it has 7000 comments with 6800 of them hidden at the bottom and realize there is no point in saying anything. Something becoming too big kills any interest I have in participating.