Are you clicking the ellipsis on the post as shown on the community page or from the post on its own page? IIRC, mod actions only show up if you visit the post itself.

Ai art is cc right?

Not generally, no, and whether and how AI-generated content can be licensed at all, CC or not, is still an open question in some jurisdictions. For sure, someone can declare their AI-generated content CC-licensed, and their claim is stronger if they collaborated with the AI instead of just entering a prompt and taking what came out, but at this time whether such CC licensing will hold up in court still has a lot of legal question marks around the world.

The grey link button takes you to the comment in the same instance as you are currently using.

The rainbow pentagon button takes you to the comment in the hosting instance (which may be the same if you’re browsing a local community).

I don’t know many situations where one would actually click on them—maybe the latter is useful if you’re worried that federation is being slow and you’re not seeing votes or replies through your local instance. But the two links can be useful to copy (by right-clicking, or long-pressing, or whatever you do to copy links in your browser/app), the former if you want to show somebody else what a comment looks like through your home instance and the latter if you want to link to a post/comment normally.

I definitely found a bunch lemmy.ml communities there a week ago, so I wonder if it’s just lemmy.ml struggling under the load now? browse.feddit.de depends on instances to report what they offer.

Since you found this sacred knowledge, it would probably be a good idea to comment on the GitHub issue in addition to here, since that’s where most people will be looking if they get these errors.