What can we (ordinary users) do to help? I’m in Europe, would it be better if I used the SDFeu server as my home instance?

I managed to register today. Did you recieve the mail eventually?

How much automation do you envision? Do you mean a “word search”, the one with a grid of letters and you have to find words going horizontally or vertically etc?

Jag försökte ge flickvännen som är från Kanada en god midsommar. Vi åkte till en hembygdspark och dansade små grodorna runt stången med massa okända bybor, åt potatissallad och köttbullar (har tidigare provat att ge henne sill men det uppskattades inte), badade nakna i en sjö, drack mjöd som min systers man gjort, och tog en promenad i naturen. Jag ville egentligen göra en blomkrans med men hon är rädd för fästingar. Det enda som saknades var småregn och att bli för full, men det kanske kan bli nästa år.

It’s working now. I guess it was just a matter of time and syncing.

Having the same issue with some remote communities. I’ve been trying to access !chatt@feddit.nu for some time.

Maybe this isn’t relevant, but a couple of days ago I created !tex_typesetting@lemmy.sdf.org. I used to hang out on r/LaTeX but since my main interest is plain TeX I thought I’d make a place for all TeX formats and not LaTeX specifically. It’s not intended as a replacement for anything though.

The usual answer for Sweden is “The Emigrants” (Utvandrarna) by Vilhelm Moberg. However, and I don’t think this is obvious to foreign readers, the author John Ajvide Lindqvist really writes about Sweden. He’s most famous for the book “Let the right one in” about a vampire kid, but the story is actually about growing up as a young boy in Sweden. The horror aspect is part of the genre, but all his books manage to mix a description of swedish society with a supernatural horror element.