This must have changed recently since i remember having to add an explicit case to show just "Moderator"
Xylight
The moderator is only given if the action was taken on your local instance
Photon doesn't exactly have keyboard navigation, i've been working on it though
Irrelevant but the embed thumbnail terrifies me. why is the android fuzzy
Padding is a very versatile thing in UI design, and none of it will make anything look terrible.
Even in your first example, the toolbar has slight padding on the edges and so do the buttons.
The reason there's more padding now is because it makes it easier for new users to process everything.
A feature that's be nice is giving you a higher upload limit if you make your upload temporary.
Lemmy will be indexed less than Reddit, ignoring user counts, because lemmy-ui is client rendered. Googlebot and some others can still index client rendered sites, but others will ignore the content.
photon doesn't directly communicate with the backend, it's not intended for that. but even then, lemmy-ui is almost entirely client side (for some reason) and it makes its calls to the API
For mostly all of my app-launching things I always prefer searching for text than searching for an icon. In pixel launcher, I always use the app drawer search, but an even better solution is in something like Niagara launcher.
9 crossposts is crazy
It's not securely sandboxed like a Qube, but apps can have their permission to access files and such restricted. Malware can escape the sandbox, or apps may come with very permissive permissions.