As far as I know that happens because in Linux ctrl+v and middle click pastes are stored in different places and are considered different things, in fact there’s a third way to paste which I don’t remember. But basically the middle click paste is used whenever you select a string, there’s no need to copy it, and the ctrl+v paste works when you do ctrl+c.

It looks beautiful, Cassidy worked on elementaryOS so he knows a thing or two about good GUI design. I wish that project could get more funding since it’s one of the best looking distros but it simply gets so lagged behind due to slow development.

At the time Lemmy was not federating and they wanted to add some stuff like stickers and some other cool stuff, so now that federation works it is more complicated.