When a bug tracker is inside the exclusive walled-gardens of MS Github or Gitlab.com, and you cannot or will not enter, where do you file your bug report? Here, of course. This is a refuge where you can report bugs that are otherwise unreportable due to technical or ethical constraints.
⚠of course there are no guarantees it will be seen by anyone relevant. Hopefully some kind souls will volunteer to proxy the reports.
I think the main pro of it being this way, is that when you do send a message, it goes through.
If you could type any username the message might not actually make it to that user, since not all federated communities are actually federated with each other.
For example, you can't message anyone from Lemmy.nsfw
It’s a good point. Essentially it means this bug is potentially hiding other bugs (such as non-existent recipients acting as a black hole and a bug whereby the sending node does not inform users when they attempt to interact with a defederated node). And if yes then they should fix those other bugs before expanding the utility of the UI.