As of 31th January, it’s restored to the Play Store. Their blog has a slightly more detailed report: https://element.io/blog/element-on-google-play-store/

I don’t think there ever was a feature to follow a user on Lemmy, whether on your own instance or on another one. However, you can send direct messages to users on a different instance, and you can subscribe to communities on a different instance. In fact, you can do most actions you would do on your own instance on another instance, except for creating and moderating communities.

For example: My username probably looks like @RandomSovietKid@lemmygrad.ml to you, indicating that my account is registered on the lemmygrad.ml instance, yet I’m seeing and commenting on this your post on the lemmy.ml instance.

If with “talk to each other”, you mean federation — yes, it’s enabled now. You can read the announcement here: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9334. You can see posts also from the other federated instances by selecting “All” instead of “Local”.

Peertube has language setting. When you’re at the main page, click on “Settings” in the sidebar. You’ll get this pop-up (you probably in English, though):

The bottom field lets you set which languages you want to see videos in. Just remove “All languages” and set “English” and whatever other languages you want to see.

However, I just tried it on the peertube.social instance, it didn’t work for me. But then the problem is not that Peertube doesn’t have a language settings, but that the language settings don’t work…

If you have a Peertube account and are logged in, you can change displayed languages in your account settings. That works for me.

Are there any plans to make it possible to browse a remote instance’s community list without going to their site? That would make finding and subscribing to remote communities much more convenient IMO.

This is very good news! Have been looking forward to this for long time already.

But it’s seeming that some things aren’t working right (Maybe it’s transfer problems? New posts seem to be working fine).

For example, here the same post viewed from Lemmygrad:

and from “main” Lemmy:

Apparently the upvotes and some of the comments don’t show up when looking at it from Lemmygrad. This isn’t a single problem in only that post, you can look at [email protected] for some more, or for example this post with no comments and 2 upvotes when viewing from Lemmygrad and 101 upvotes (and 32 downvotes lol) and lots and lots of comments when viewing from “main” Lemmy.

On another note, are there plans to make the search search across instances? At the moment, it seems to not find posts from another instance: