You can access Photon at https://phtn.app/ to use any instance, or selfhost.

Additionally, some instances I’d recommend that use photon are

• lemdro.id (which uses it as their primary!)
• p.lemmy.world
• photon.slrpnk.net

I’m curious why your instance, sh.itjust.works, hosts Tesseract but not Photon. They have diverged so much they cannot be considered similar.

It was forked around a year or more back I believe. They are completely different projects now imo. Photon aims for the best UX and speed, while Tesseract aims to be super feature-rich.

I removed it because I don’t want my app to necessarily depend or be associated with any specific centralized external source, like MBFC. By adding it to my app, I’m implicitly supporting its use, which wasn’t necessarily my goal.

This must have changed recently since i remember having to add an explicit case to show just “Moderator”

The moderator is only given if the action was taken on your local instance

Photon doesn’t exactly have keyboard navigation, i’ve been working on it though

Lemmy will be indexed less than Reddit, ignoring user counts, because lemmy-ui is client rendered. Googlebot and some others can still index client rendered sites, but others will ignore the content.

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It’s just for receiving, like aliases.

Doesn’t have to be installed on your instance, you can also use the official web app instance. It’s very similar to how Voyager works.

https://phtn.app

The photon UI supports every instance at https://phtn.app, your instance doesn’t have to officially support it.