Yeah agreed, that's how it works in Telegram and I don't find it annoying

Hmm, yeah not sure how I feel about them either, they at least seem well done.

I like the slightly-frowning one, they kind of remind me of the Lego characters.

Yeah looks like it

This is what I was thinking of! I'm still learning how to find things on the fediverse, did you use one of the search engines?

Kbin is another open source link aggregation program with a different developer that uses the same protocol as Lemmy (ActivityPub), so kbin and Lemmy instances can communicate with each other. If you see anyone with "@kbin.social" after their name then that's where they're from. You can check it out yourself here as well kbin.social

I've also noticed this but wasn't sure if it was liftoff or lemmy itself

Yeah I think it's great! I was on kbin originally but I'm a sucker for a nice app UI. I'll definitely be using it more once the apps are here.

I also can't find my lemm.ee community through kbin and I think it's some kind of federation issue, I'm sure it will get fixed.

Seems to be Ernest's attitude about that sort of thing, he doesn't like to hide things from the average user that someone more technically inclined would still be able to access