You can still direct link Imgur pics using 3rd Party Apps (yeah I know) like ImgurViewer
You mean community? An instance is basically a server that connects to other instances, which themselves host communities on different topics.
On the web interface, you can create a community on your instance (Lemmy.ca). Once other instances have indexed your newly created community, it will appear to every member of their instances
And so close to the deadline as well. It’s really weird
No. But you can search them in the communities tab (local or global) and surbscribe to them. And if it doesn’t exist, create it :)
Lemmy has grown exponentially in the past month, it’s frankly amazing how well it’s able to sustain the massive influx of new users, but yeah, some features like this one are dearly missed