Cricket [he/him]

Cool to see a Linux smartphone, but holy moly, what a terrible name!

• Completely flat chiclet keyboards on laptops. It drives me absolutely insane because I can barely tell if my fingers are aligned with the keys. Thanks, Apple!
• Hidden controls on desktop software or desktop websites (ex: hidden exit, forward, and back controls on picture galleries)
• Hiding or collapsing scrollbars on desktop software

In general, it seems like there’s a major trend in design of form beating the heck out of function. It looks pretty! Who cares if you can actually use it or not?

All good points.

Faster than .zip? Perhaps. But when I moved from lemmy.sdf.org to lemm.ee I went back to using SDF several times because .ee would have major slowdowns. Which is weird because of how hands off the SDF admins seem to be. Perhaps the performance has more to do with network location and resources allocated to the server?

Exactly. People will have different definitions of “good”.

The main instance I found to replace lemm.ee was lemmy.zip. They seem to be well-regarded, well-admined, and appear to have a similar (de)federation philosophy as lemm.ee. In other words, they are widely federated in both directions, which is an increasing rarity on the “threadiverse” (Lemmy and other similar federated discussion software). One interesting thing they do is that in place of completely defederating some of the more controversial instances like hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml, they pre-emptively block those instances for new users instead. I feel that this is absolutely the correct middle-ground approach as it leaves the choice with the user (edit: while still hiding the controversial instances from new users).

The other instances that still federate widely including those two controversial instances have some other issues:

• lemmy.ml unfortunately appears to be defederated by some other major instances (edit: programming.dev?)
• lemmy.today is apparently new and I read yesterday that they’ve been having a bit of an issue with spam
• lemmy.sdf.org, where I started with my first lemmy account, doesn’t defederate from anyone and seems to not be very actively maintained with lemmy upgrades, etc.