I’ve had a few questions about trouble accessing other communities from here.
First and foremost, I request you to be patient, lemmy is…alpha software at best imho. There’s 200+ issues on github right now and very few maintainers. No one expected things to take the turn they did within a matter of days, but here we are :)
Biggest known issues:
Websocket support is being reworked
This is out of my hand and I can confirm that its busted. I tested locally and the current main lemmy backend branch is incompatible with lemmy-ui branch. Can’t even login if you set everything up locally.
Accessing communities from other instances is flaky
Good news is that there is shoddy workaround. Say you want to access c/gaming from beehaw.org. Enter the full url https://beehaw.org/c/gaming in your search, it won’t show up, click search a couple times then wait a sec, then enter just gaming and it pops up magically.
No high quality mobile apps
There’s jerboa for Android and mlem for iOS. Both are under heavy development. Thankfully the website works fine on mobile…mostly.
PS: I’m not a lemmy maintainer, just a hobbyist self-hoster and professional Rust developer trying the fediverse as much as y’all are :)
Seems to work quite fine already from a federation point of view: I don’t even use lemmy actively, but I could already reply to threads I found here through mastodon, and while it takes some time depending on the server until my messages arrive, things are eventually consistent.
[edit: And I stand corrected on the time – as soon as I published this, it showed up in the lemmyrs.org tab!]
One problem is that it doesn’t bring over the comments when it imports a post. You can search the comments by URL and that will make them appear but that needs to be done for each comment.