I would love this. Don’t hesitate to upvote this github issue for the backend to allow this kind of things. Until it’s managed in the backend there is no way apps will efficiently implement this feature until it is managed in the backend.
It proves that it’s more of a weird API design on lemmy’s end than anything else.
For anybody curious, here is a Memmy issue about it https://github.com/gkasdorf/memmy/issues/168
Different app, same root cause.
You are most likely logging in with your email instead of your username. Had the same thing happen to me.
Design people and looking for ways to mess with perfectly fine stuff while pretending to innovate, how surprising.
Don’t get me wrong, a good (UX) designer is always a godsend, but the amount of mediocre ones reinventing the wheel is staggering.
Haha wife bad thank god for decentralized technology.