But with no karma system, and not even any popular extensions for keeping track of users, how do you keep track of “trust built up over a long time”? That’s literally what karma was for, and the Lemmy devs removed that extremely valuable feature.

But it’s a really common one

That may be the problem. If the site detects you coming from an address with a history of other users abusing it, they may have implemented protections against it.

Where are you located, and are you using a VPN or something else that may affect how the site sees you?

*instance

The domain is a Lemmy instance. A community is the equivalent of a subreddit. [email protected] is a community within the lemmy.world instance, for example.

Yes, but people can no longer engage with that content. It creates the appearance of relatively dead communities.

Individual users’ follows are not very useful in the threadiverse compared to backlog of content.

A⇒B⇎B⇒A

Wahoo absolutely does this.

Clickable links, for sure. But machine-handled links like RSS feeds and ActivityPub subscriptions? Maybe not.

Ah right, thanks. I only searched for “meta”, not “announcements” when looking for an answer to my question before posting. But looks like my instance stopped federating that community a year ago anyway.

In addition to what Blaze said, there’s a much more public desire to leave Instagram because of how publicly awful Facebook and Zuckerberg are. Spez is not really any better, but outside of our bubble people don’t really see that as much—party because he has so much less money to push his ideas outside of Reddit.

And it’s just fortuitous that unlike Twitter, Instagram doesn’t have any real competition that isn’t using Activity Pub.

The /u/ formatting works exactly the same as the @ formatting, except for different platforms. Right now, /u/ creates a link that goes to their profile on lemmy-ui (the default web interface). But @ creates a link on Jerboa (the first-party app) and Sync (a third-party app).

In Sync, when you see your comment, does it create a link you can click to go to murd0x’s profile? If so, nice! Sync is doing the right thing in this context. I know already that Jerboa, the app from the main Lemmy devs, does this correctly.

But lemmy-ui, the interface you’ll see on most instances if you open it up in your web browser, that is not clickable, but the /u/username is clickable. It’s an obvious bug/shortcoming in lemmy-ui.

Wait, I just realised that what I posted…isn’t an actual image. It ends in .svg, but it isn’t an svg file. This is, and it has no brackets:

To test how URL escaping works, here’s a different (non-image) link with brackets in it.

I had not. I had no idea that even existed, thanks!

Do they have a Lemmy community for feedback? It’s super buggy right now unfortunately, with “a” taking me to the post on the poster’s instance, instead of upvoting (or at least taking me to the post on my instance…), and with all keyboard shortcuts handling alternative keyboard layouts in what I would consider to be the wrong way (though this is possibly debatable/up to preference).

Yeah a lot of former Reddit apps that switched to Lemmy did a really lazy job of it and haven’t implemented all of the Lemmy text parsing syntax properly. Spoilers are one of the most common issues, but so are _subscript (including ~multiple word subscript~) and ^superscript (and ^multiple words of it^).

If your app doesn’t parse text correctly 2 years later, it may be time to consider switching.

New users should be able to join a “default instance” that is federated with all instances so people can window shop for the instance they prefer.

Almost by definition, any default instance is likely to get defederated by some other instances, if that default grows too large. Being default means it’s more likely to attract more people of all sorts. And some of those won’t get along with the federation policies of some stricter instances.

Personally I only have alts on other instances because you can’t create Communities on instances other than your home one, and my home instance was not an appropriate one for the Communities I wanted to create.

What exactly is it you’re asking for, though? A change in user behaviour towards consolidation? Some new feature of the platform similar to multi-reddits? How exactly do you suggest that should work?

Frustratingly, @[email protected]’s comment created a hyperlink and yours did not, in lemmy-ui (the default web interface). This is probably one of the frustrations I should have mentioned in my comment about inconsistent UX between web and mobile…