I’m itching so hard to block both.

A design that scales. Forwarding every like, post and comment to all federated servers will not scale well.

Mastodon exists. It’s pretty good. Using 2 apps is fine.

That really depends on how you treat the media you download. Is it just a temp buffer that you delete after watching or is it a collection you grow and curate over time.

In retrospect, I’m really glad all of this shit with Reddit happened and lemmy became a thing in my life. Was bummed initially when Apollo died, but now despite needed polish in lemmy apps, the experience here is much much better and I would never go back.