No that's not merged yet, still needs more feedback from plugin devs.
The key is refreshed after 24 hours so it will work if you wait a bit.
The users who voted all look legit, I also didnt notice any accounts upvoting multiple posts from this user.
There were optimizations related to database triggers, these are probably responsible for the speedup.
No that's a completely different issue.
Beehaw is still using version 0.18.4 which will soon celebrate its first birthday. We made countless moderation improvements since then, but of course Beehaw won't get those if they refuse to upgrade.
Yes something seems to be broken, but so far we don't have any idea what it might be. On Monday we will deploy the 0.19.4 release candidate which has various performance improvements, hopefully that will help.
Missed that part. Then there will be lots of duplicate posts and comments, which increases server load and confuses users. Better to merge the communities in the first place.
That doesn't sound like a real solution because comments would still be spread between these different posts.
The Lemmy frontend is written in Typescript which is a very popular language, yet it has even less contributors than the backend.