Is it this issue fixed in 0.19.3?
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4383
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4384
0.19.3 is a good upgrade
https://lemmy.ml/post/10890295
Or maybe your instance needs a restart, I think that was a bug in 0.19.2 but should be fixed in 0.19.3 as well? Where the federation queue would get stuck
r/Android has their Lemmy link in their sidebar, and they're one of the most successful Reddit->Lemmy transitions we've seen so far
I've been enjoying Boost lately
this colorful icon is the fedilink, the original URL of the post/comment
I think this is a pretty big problem with how people are using Lemmy in general
https://lemmyverse.net/communities shows 27,726 communities
https://join-lemmy.org/instances says Lemmy has 42.2k monthly active users (as of v0.19.0 that's including people who only vote and don't post/comment)
I just think that's way too many communities to be sustainable, people jumped on Lemmy and tried to create a community to match every subreddit, and then they did it on multiple different instances too.
I'm not sure how to improve this. You could delete communities but then you lose post history and subscribers. You could close communities and make a pinned post, but then they clutter search results and they definitely look dead, because they are. There could maybe be a new Lemmy feature added to merge a community into another one (moving the posts over and then deleting the old community) but that would have complications with subscribers on other instances.
I'm surprised they're still on 0.18.4. They made that big post complaining about moderation actions not federating, then the 0.18.5 hotfix came out and the only change was that fix, and they never updated anyways? I even put a comment on their post to let them know the hotfix for their issue. There's no database changes, it's the simplest update.
side-loaded videos
Fucking Apple lol, just let people play video files, this should be basic minimum functionality
Drop the permaurl/fedilink into your own instance's search box. Note that you have to be logged in when searching for remote content otherwise it'll silently find nothing, probably to avoid abuse of server resources.
Related minor issue https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2160
And pull request with the fix https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2344 (give a thumbs up or comment if you want to see this fix accepted)
Basically if the colorful fedilink icon is not there then you can just copy the URL from your address bar cause you're already on the local post. Posts are local to the instance of the poster, not the instance of the community.
Here's a couple of feature requests filed for improving the core issue: (give them thumbs ups)
I believe it's just cosmetic but it does need to be fixed
You're framing it as if this is a bad thing that Lemmy can only see some of the agupe content, but wait until you see how much content non federated platforms can see from each other! I really don't see how some content is worse than none, if you really want all of it then make an account over there like every other social network in the past requires you to browse on their site/app. It'll probably improve over time but it really sounds like you're upset that it already sometimes works instead of not at all.
0.19.3 has been out for a while now and even the more conservative instances (like programming.dev) who like to wait and see for updates, already updated to it a while ago. I follow the progress pretty closely and 0.19.3 seems to be better than 0.19.2 in every way, no new bugs. I think wait and see is a good approach, but 0.19.3 seems like it has surpassed 0.18.5 as the most stable version.