It opens the item (post, comment) in the instance that it was created on. For example I’m on https://sh.itjust.works so if I click on that button of your post it opens this post on https://lemmy.world, which is your instance.

Just a “normal” http API as far as I know. There won’t be any live notifications/data on release but this can be added using polling at a later stage. It was mainly done because websockets just don’t scale well at all with thousands of users.

Don’t feel the need to “fit in with the crowd”. Individuality is more fun anyways.

Lemmys WebSockets are being phased out currently and thus all bugs regarding them (wrong vote counters, posts being pushed in at the top in the wrong categories, etc.) are gonna go away as soon as the transition is complete.

There’s the setting „Show read posts“ which can be disabled to hide already read and/or up-/downvoted posts.

Already resolved itself, the Nodes counter had the same dip so probably just servers not responding.

This is great! Thanks for your work.

Same, kinda missing all the videos and gifs from that other place

Let’s not kid ourselves UI/UX needs a lot of work not just a little, but it’s making progress and all done by volunteers and that’s impressive on it’s own.

Another problem is that you never actually receive a confirmation if your application was received and/or rejected, you are just sorta stuck in limbo after applying.