If you want to follow a community from another instance, just paste the URL into the search bar. Also works for specific posts or comments that you want to reply to.
I think it should be closed immediately, at least in theory. Anyway we are going to remove websocket in the next major version, then that counter will probably also be gone.
Minus is not allowed, only underscore. But it should show an error, can you open an issue for that in lemmy-ui repo?
Votes are federated.
And community sort options are probably not implemented, I think theres an issue for that in lemmy-ui.
Its the number of open websocket connections, so it also counts users who are not logged in or individual tabs which are opened by the same user.
Its really better to link to joinlemmy so that people get distributed across different instances. We dont want everyone to be on the same instance, that would cause many problems.
There is, otherwise you could vote on the same post multiple times. But I dont think its exposed in the API/frontend.
Lemmy can only follow communities, not users. Otherwise it would require a whole new UI and other major changes. Doesnt make much sense when you can create a second account on Mastodon or one of many other platforms which already implement user following much better.
This is true, but there are two exceptions: admins have a purge action which permanently deletes content. And like others already said, when you delete your account everything that you posted is permanently deleted.
You should have seen this place a week ago, it was very quiet. With all the new users its its getting a lot more active.
No its showing the actual vote count.
It's definitely a major feature which requires changes to most parts of the code. So maybe a week or two for the initial implementation (or more if you are unfamiliar with the stack). I don't think these multilemmys would have to federate at all, so you don't have to know anything about Activitypub.
Paste the beehaw community url into the search box on lemmy.ml, then you can interact directly with it.