Most of those things are kind of a matter of taste though aren’t they? If you change those kinds of things you’ll get other people complaining who like it as it is now. For example for me I think the default UI is excellent and the alternative ones I’ve tried are mostly terrible, but I know not everyone thinks the same way.

Other complaints are instance-specific but that’s a good thing; instances can operate how they like because we have a choice, that’s the whole benefit to Lemmy and federation.

OK but that’s still no explanation. I want to understand the problem deeper than “it’s bad”.

I’m not getting what the UX problems are, and if you change things aren’t there just going to be new problems with the changes? I think the default experience is a lot better than Reddit at least.

Now that I could get behind, although shredding files has taken on a different meaning now (i.e. overwriting files so they are irrecoverable).

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What’s ICE, that’s a difficult acronym to search?

Unfortunately mine says flashlight which is a mild annoyance since it doesn’t flash.

It’s “Wastebasket” in the UK on the GNOME desktop. I’m happy enough with that.

I second this. Not wanting to shoot down your idea, quite a big deciding factor for me is the release cycle and update process and you won’t experience that in a week. Might be a good idea to list what you’ve already tried though.