Has Reddit usage gone down in the past few weeks since the API change or has it returned to normal?

The double take was for the right hand somehow scrunched up in the left elbow.

You can still access and interact with communities in other instances even if you signed up with the Lemmy.world instance. Not sure if that’s why you wanted to create an account on another instance or not. But as the other user mentioned, there should be a way within settings.