why not contribute directly to the project, given it's open source nature rather than a browser extension? I'm also thinking about contributing some stuff, I think a lot of the federated part right now is really confusing and obtuse to new users especially.

yea, i'm in the same boat. i just don't even see a path back to comfort on reddit, lemmy is a lot different but I'd much rather push through this pain than go back to reddit. i've already posted more here in the last couple days than probably my last year on reddit.

ie. you don't have to sign up to multiple instances, and finding and joining other instances from the one you joined