Although it was opened against 0.17.4, I encourage you to mention what you are seeing on this Github issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3222
beehaw.org sees these two comments, bot others are missing.
Does anyone know what’s going on with Lemmy.ml?
Serious scaling problems with the database in Lemmy. The code was not really tested and tuned for the quantity of federation peers to replicate with, comments, votes, postings. A lot of big communities over there to replicate.
I'm seeing pending on all my remote Join to communities hosted there.
yes. In the sitewide-search in the upper right next to your profile name and notification icon. It doesn't seem to work on the community search..
I imagine major overhauls are going to happen in the next 10 days on things like this, I expect there will be a lot of confusion.
They made a mistake in the link, left off the /c/
It doesn't seem automatic in my testing, even some well established ones don't show up unless someone triggers activity.
https://lemmy.ml/c/englishlearning
I'm going to search for that in the search, that is supposed to be the way to trigger it.
EDIT: yes, after searching for that string (the full URL), it now works here locally. /c/[email protected]
That's probably a big part. Web browsers can do ad blocking. Within the official Reddit app that's way more difficult.
"new" reddit and a focus on showing images and video really changed the site. /r/All was often entirely posts with images/video and comments are often just reaction-comments. It really solidified the trend towards a "TLDR" site. I guess they figured their biggest competitor was 9gag or something.
I don't think it's the identical issue either, but a developer working on the code would probably try to fix them together.