Due to the influx of users, Lemmy is experiencing more technical glitches than usual. The software isn’t as mature as Mastodon was when people were fleeing Twitter en masse last fall.

An example. In theory, participating in a community on instance A with an account on instance B should work, but right now, some or all of a post’s comments might be invisible when loading a post on a different instance. This is a known issue that will be fixed in a future update, hopefully soon. But right now, making a blanket statement that the instance doesn’t matter isn’t 100% true.

There is the character limit, and then there is the lack of error message. I don’t think 20 characters is particularly unreasonable (it’s the same Reddit has). But it’s confusing that the software doesn’t tell me, the user, what the problem is.

Thank you for looking into it!

Also, hi! This is my first post on Lemmy. How nice to be part of this community!