Except it is encrypted, and pretty secure. That’s not really related to the issue. Facebook complied with a subpoena as they are legally required to do so. Signal would have to do the same. The only difference there is that Signal doesn’t retain decryption keys for your data so subpoenaing them would be pretty pointless except to prove that some conversation happened.

If you click your name in the top right you can go to your Profile which has a list of subscriptions as one of the tabs. Also under your settings you can make your home view be just your subscriptions instead of everything.

No way to set newest as default that I’m aware of yet - would be nice because I’m like you in that regard.

I’m on Linux (Arch with KDE) for whatever that’s worth. So I am very likely using different fonts than you. I haven’t messed with any of the browser font settings though so those should all be the defaults. Happy to pair with you on this further if you want. Tho not sure the best medium for that.

Not sure honestly. And I reallllly suck at CSS so take what I say and did with a grain of salt. Here’s what it looked like before my changes (me replying to you):

I then lowered a few sizes.

        .comment figure > a > .no-avatar {
           //
            border-radius: 5px;
            width: 1.615em !important;
            height: 1.615em !important;
          //
      }

Same for the vote buttons

Pretty slick. The absolute positioning and sizing of the avatars and voting buttons is a little finnicky on Chrome. But tweaking the sizes a bit made it workable.

I could be wrong - but I’m not seeing anything that will help search engines index kbin.social effectively. There is a loose robots file, but I’m not seeing any indicator of site maps. Pretty much a necessity if you want to get crawled automatically.

So I can’t speak for moderation tools. The search question intrigues me because there is a search feature but I can’t tell if it has any sort of filter support.

As for the image issues. I just came across stylus and https://github.com/aclist/kbin-css/ - the user experience is worlds better with it installed. And there are tweaks for a lot of the image issues and other quirks of the main theme.

That being said, the ability to install these styles should be streamlined into the server I think. External extensions come and go - which would leave anyone using them dead in the water.