No, I meant the instance itself. The server. The one who runs lemmy.ca is here in Canada with me.

It’s like when playing a game; You choose servers closet to you for the lowest ping time.

The other reason I neglected to mention was I like to support local. 😎

Agreed. I went with lemmy.ca since I’m Canadian and the instance is in my country.

I also heard Lemmy should perform a little quicker for me too this way.

Instance based isn’t something I knew would apply. I have an avatar setup which shows up desktop. But not here. If you have one, I don’t see it either. Weird.

Not a Star Wars fan, eh? 😆

I’m using Connect for Lemmy right now. I got the newest update from yesterday. I don’t see anyones profile pics…

This is the way.

I’m on lemmy.ca and I get the same thing. Doesn’t matter if I’m using an app or desktop. I made an account on lemmy.world and the same happens.

But, the subscriptions are working and appearing in my main feed, so I assume it’s just a bug that’ll get fixed eventually.

From how I’m reading that Reddit post, the OP is speaking strictly of lemmy.ml, not Lemmy as a whole and the developers.

Be it true or not about lemmy.ml - I have no opinion as I haven’t looked into that.