I was really confused reading the OP at first, wondering what the problem was, then I realised it was just my Australia brain.

It’s especially bad with the relatively frequent downtime world has been having

Also I’d recommend blocking the lemmit.online instance, it’s just bot spam. I block the bot itself so it doesn’t worry me but for newer uses it can flood the all feed.

Alright, I’m here. Also I would recommend including a link to lemmyverse.net as well as the feddit browser in the sidebar. Feddit hasn’t shown some Lemmygrad stuff for me before.