So far I'm finding that subscribing to communities doesn't seem to be the same experience as actually being a participant on that Lemmy instance that we're Federated with. Notably, the upvotes don't seem to sync properly to our instance which makes communities feel dead when they have hundreds or thousands of users on other instances. Also, it feels like a lot of the posts and/or comments from other instances don't actually show up when I subscribe to those communities from our instance. Can anybody else share their experience? Is this just an issue with our particular instance? Or a bug with synchronization across instances? Or does it just take a long time for things to catch up? Also, the sorting is horrible. Sorting by "Active" sometimes shows me posts from over a year ago, and sorting by "Hot" seems to have similar issues. The only way of seeing newer content at the moment seems to be sorting by "New". Hopefully a lot of these issues are resolved over time but right now it definitely feels a bit rough around the edges.

With the Lemmy instance seeming like it's perhaps getting more uptake than Mastodon is there a chance that if that continues it might one day become the top level `wetshaving.social` or is it doomed to always be `sub.wetshaving.social` 'cause it's perhaps really fiddly to change domains around once entrenched?

Now that we are beginning to see more members, I wanted to open up the topic of server-wide rules. I adapted the server-wide rules from the /r/WetShaving subreddit rules, since I figured that was a good baseline. But they are more geared towards a subreddit rather than a server. I don’t intend on taking any action on new rules until we have had at least a week of discussion, unless someone points out a glaring error that needs to be immediately fixed. However, if there is anything you think needs to be added, deleted, or changed, please discuss here.

I’m posting this question here instead of in the Wetshaving community because I suspect that it is a facility that exists across communities. Is there a way to do user-to-user messaging?