Nice! See my comment above :)
Nice! Jerboa is still very much in alpha phase, but there have been some helpful contributors helping polishing it up. Soon it will be much better :)
This is an amazing initiative, great job! :D
First of all, welcome! I hope you have a nice stay :D
Now, to answer your points:
- I'm quite positive that won't happen any time soon because registration needing approval was the only measure that realistically stopped bots, and with the new influx of users, it would be a bad idea to turn it off. A solution would be to get more people to approve users, instead of disabling the protection. Either way, the developers are making an effort to push people towards other generic instances, because lemmy.ml is not supposed to be a flagship instance, despite always being seen as one (and understandably so).
- Servers can't know what communities exist on servers they do not know, but I agree this should be more robust and easy for the end user. Federating servers should periodically exchange a list of communities to help with discoverability. For now though, there's https://browser.feddit.de.
- Definitely. It should be made very clear. If you can, you should try opening an issue on the
lemmy-uirepository about it, if there's none already.
Nice! The documentation still needs some improvements, but fortunately the new influx of users also meant a new influx of contributors and there's already been work on improving everything in Lemmy, including the docs :)
I'm sure something like AutoMod would eventually become useful for community moderators.
Aww, the first is quite unfortunate... The latter though, seems to be a more common fate nowadays...
I've heard of it (and its incredible show xP) but never read anything. Will put it on my list for this summer.
Yeah, somehow there's something not Pokémon-y about them. Maybe it's just nostalgia speaking hehe, but the 2D ones had way more charm!
Yeah I heard ORAS were pretty decent, and honestly would be the only 3D ones I'd like to try out, because I love gen 3 so much
Yup! Still very recent, but hopefully should be usable soon :)