Nobody in general says "you need to join e-mail", it's usually "join GMail" or "join Yahoo". I don't know how it would be solved without detracting from the "choose the instance that is right for you" experience though

No I think you're right, give them an instance. They won't have enough knowledge to choose an instance anyways. If they don't like the one you gave them then they can move later.

Fixed the community link for you: !Randomactsofgaming@lemm.ee

This will prevent the usual de-duplication of the posts, thereby preventing the biggest post from cannibalizing the upvotes from the rest

There should probably be an easy way to upvote the crossposts without visiting each one

I filed an issue on Github for this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2825

0.19.4 is annoying since it adds the hashtag additions where posts are auto hashtagged with the community name. I was aiming to Ideally remove that from the codebase before we upgrade but we might have to upgrade with that in it

is the feature that bad? I haven't heard complaints about it, seems cool to me

That would make community names a bit longer so they'd be more annoying to type and share?

I do think there could be some features added to help avoid full defederation. Like if instance admins could set a default list of banned instances, and the users could choose to unban those instances for themselves. Of course defederation could still be necessary sometimes like for illegal content, software bugs, or malicious attacks.

Also linking that post reminded me, hopefully somehow a smoother way to link posts across instances can be worked out (albeit that's a general federation quirk from what I've seen, Mastodon runs into similar stuff sometimes).

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987

I think scaled sort and instance blocking are the biggest new features, lots of little tweaks and bug fixes too

Doesn't sound right, I wasn't getting stuck on pending. My issue appears to be purely a front end issue, the subscribe buttons in the community list don't work, but subscribing from inside the community's sidebar does work. Also I was testing with remote communities not local

I've added a new comment to the issue with further clarification

you mean because the 3rd party apps don't support it yet?

The first is that listed subscriber numbers are for your server only

For your first issue, subscriber counts will be fixed in Lemmy v0.19.0

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1440

Preview here: https://voyager.lemmy.ml/communities?listingType=All&sort=TopMonth&page=1

The second is that there are many redundant communities, which makes it difficult for onboarding new users. There should be some way to group like-communities into super-groups based on topics

Yeah this one has an issue open, you could join the discussion if you have any ideas, this is a big one

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

If we make this better automated, then we can save a lot of time and effort after just 10 apocalyptic events