1. The syntax of linking to users, posts, communities etc. is hard to keep a mental grip on. I know they couldn't exactly copy reddit's u/ for users and r/ for subreddits, but ! for communities and @ for users isn't as schematic. I think it's why you see it used less than on Reddit. And if you start to type a username, and an autocomplete window pops up, it inserts that format in brackets followed by a URL in parenthesis. To the right of the text box I'm typing in, I see, and I'll approximate this as best I can:

**Ask Lemmy**@lemmy.world

asklemmy@lemmy.world

Neither has the exclamation point reminding you how to use that feature. My bipolar ex girlfriend had a more consistent UI than that.

2. Linking to posts and comments is just pure moon logic. Follow me here:

This Post is stored on lemmy.world, right? Where is the comment I'm currently writing stored? on lemmy.world, or sh.itjust.works?

@kibiz0r@midwest.social commented on this post, I'm going to use it as an example. There are two buttons next to their username. Both have the hover over tooltip "link".

The chain looking one gives me this URL: https://sh.itjust.works/post/27359355/14761082

The...fedigon? What's the name of the 5-pointed rainbow fediverse icon? looking one gives me this URL: https://midwest.social/comment/13230476

If I wanted to refer to kibiz0r's comment in some other thread somewhere else, which of those links should I use? I figure in most cases I'm addressing an audience of the entire fediverse not just my fellow sh.itheads, so why would I ever use the first link? What does someone from lemm.ee see when they click on either of those links? Do they get to see it through their own account on their instance, or do they get linked directly to another instance? This really breaks the idea of "one account, whole fediverse."

If you complain about a technical thing, you'll end up having to justify every square inch of your existence in order to prove your complaint isn't just user error.

Two examples from yesterday:

• https://midwest.social/post/18665175/13205738
• https://midwest.social/post/18685199/13213335

It can be hard to find the right community to post a link in. Figuring out the rules and knowing who's reading them (and sometimes what they're really about) might cause someone to give up. (Especially when people complain about 'this isn't the place for that' without stating the better alternative.)

That it's not well known.