What's the meaning of the little red sliced message icon? some posts have them and some don't

I've never seen this before and I haven't updated to the version with the two 'search' icons in the homebar.

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emptyother@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Ow, that was confusing, a screenshot of the Jerboa app in the Jerboa app. I could hardly tell where one stopped and the other began. Could probably do with some design changes.

fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 3y

And here I was, tapping like an idiot on the screenshot, wondering what's happening...

denton@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

I was confused trying to come back to this post to look at the new comments too 😂

s38b35M5@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y (3 replies)

It's a locked topic. There's a new mod in that community that has a greeting post explaining that several posts in there were off-topic, but had been uovoted, so instead of deleting, they are being locked

Edit: https://lemmy.world/post/163272 the mod post I mentioned above (and fixed typos)

denton@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Ahh I see, maybe I'll come across that post at some point, thanks for explaining!

s38b35M5@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

You're welcome! Linked in my comment (had to find it and edit), so if you refresh, you can read that post.

Edit: keep submitting too soon...

denton@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

Ooh thanks for linking! Have just read the post

RedditReject@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Looks like maybe comments are lock on it? It looks a lot like the comment button

denton@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

I thought that but like 5 posts in a row had them and I was unsure if that many posts would've been locked since they weren't controversial posts

Edit I think that is what it is though, I tried posting in one and a little toast came up saying 'locked'

Elbullazul@lem.elbullazul.com · 5 pts · 3y

It means the thread is locked (the web UI has a padlock, which conveys the idea better IMO)

lemann@lemmy.one · 2 pts · 3y

I think it means comments are locked, is there a mod comment in there saying as much?

I'm aware some communities are encouraging reddit news updates to go into a megathread, so other posts and content can rise up

shortwavesurfer@monero.town · -1 pts · 3y

Its lemmy.ml slow federation. You will get the content but it will say "pending" forever