leo vriska

The PR hadn’t been reviewed and was merged by mistake, from my understanding.

I definitely would’ve… it was basically impossible to subscribe to communities on lemmy.world and lemmy.ml from smaller instances before 0.18.0, and after lemmy.ml updated that’s no longer an issue.

Or does a self hosted lemmy instance federate all comments from all threads once it knows about a server?

Only in subscribed communities, but yes.

On the other hand, I don’t really trust Reddit with my upvotes/downvotes all that much more than random users, so I already refrain from voting on content I wouldn’t want to be associated with…

Of course, Reddit can still see what posts I view, while that isn’t the case for Lemmy (at least since I self-host an instance).