And saw a bunch of posts about the third party apps closing down, and lots of negativity about that whole fiasco.
… And I realized I hadn’t been there for a week… And frankly didn’t miss it. I am really loving the beehaw (and Lemmy as a whole) community. Thanks for being open, welcoming, responsive, engaging, and just generally nice people. I’m happy to be here. :)
Please give Lemmy some more time to develop. Until the Reddit API announcements this week, it only had 2 hobbyist developers contributing to it at a slow rate because of its small userbase.
Content can appear slightly different between instances because of how posts are retrieved with federation. In the threads you linked, it’s likely that the older comment doesn’t appear on beehaw.org because it was posted before beehaw.org federated with lemmy.pineapplemachine.com. Comments that were posted before two instances federate with each other are not synced between the instances. This prevents small instances federating with big ones like lemmy.ml from being bombarded by thousands of comment requests.
The problem with links to remote communities not converting to links on the home server and the confusing federation process are also being worked on, but again, Lemmy (and Kbin)'s contributors are a few unpaid developers. They can’t be expected to push production-quality Reddit features instantly.
I’ll definitely give it some more time, I thought I saw a post somewhere that Lemmy was being developed by 2 paid developers. Regardless, I may try my hand at contributing. I’ve got a degree in compsci and some experience on a few personal projects. But first gotta get my head wrapped around how all this works and then get digging through the code.
Just watched a video that mentioned the possibility of following a mastadon account from a peertube account, being able to communicate cross-instance and cross-application within the fediverse, which sounds like a neat ability. Though I don’t see how to do that just yet. I’ll keep poking around and reading.