Her exact response when I asked her why she was upset was, "Can't you see how that's a mean prank to play on someone?". She didn't say much outside of that.

Yeah I opened Reddit once just to see what it looked like today, then uninstalled the app.

I'd agree. I've built dozens of computers over the years and these days I always use PCPartPicker as the starting point for my builds.

So far I've mostly used jerboa. It's a usable app, and a good starting point. That said, from a UI/UX perspective, it does seem to be missing a lot of quality of life features that were in Reddit apps.

Overall Lemmy seems like a decent Reddit replacement and I'm sure it will only improve with time.