Lemmy has grown exponentially in the past month, it’s frankly amazing how well it’s able to sustain the massive influx of new users, but yeah, some features like this one are dearly missed

That’s exactly what preventing me from switching to a more obscure instance. I don’t want to redo my subs all over again

You can still direct link Imgur pics using 3rd Party Apps (yeah I know) like ImgurViewer

No. But you can search them in the communities tab (local or global) and surbscribe to them. And if it doesn’t exist, create it :)