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The Russians are there in the first place because the Ukrainians have been shelling the Easterm regions since 2015, violating a ceasefire agreement. This has become more aggressive in the past couple of months. As to an invasion, I can not speak to that.

Is there an option to delete a community? I wasn’t aware that existed…

It’s a technical thing that someone can probably explain in more detail, but once other instances start pointing toward your posts on lemmy.ml or whatever your domain is, then changing your domain later on will break that at minimum (there are probably worse consequences, but like I said I don’t know everything under the hood)

There’s not really a way around getting the app, it’s all closed-loop proprietary stuff. I believe that you can browse on the website if you’d prefer, but you’ll still need an account for it to be worthwhile, and most of the content is designed for mobile screens.

Just like most corporate social media you will need to make some compromises on your privacy and data sharing to use it, but it’s not necessarily worse than any other apps of this type.

In most cases a domain is going to be like .1% of your costs of running a Peertube instance tbh

Alright now that it’s been a while, the icons have reverted to showing “cancel follow request” rather than “unfollow” so we’re back in the same spot as before.

Another finding is that even though the icons show that I am following the comms, they don’t show up in the “following” list of my profile.

Yeah I finally dug that answer up a few minutes ago, I found what may be the actual cause of my issues though (federating Lemmy comms to Mastodon)

Thanks for your answer!

Edit: Ignore this for now, I thought I’d gotten past the original issue.

Next question is how to get content from the comm to show up in my Mastodon feed after I follow.

I understand that being the first person on my instance to follow a comm will mean that my instance won’t preview any content, however I’m not seeing anything pop up yet now that I’m following.

Ok so it looks like Lemmy comms appear in the search interface, and you can use the mini follow button in the result list to follow the comm.

If you view the comm, and then use the follow button there, it will submit a follow request which presumably will never be answered.