I like that kbin/lemmy we can choose whatever fucking avatar we want instead of being limited to customizing our snoz or wtf Reddit calls their mascot thing.

You can still do that on new reddit. When looking at your own profile while logged in, there's a little camera with a plus in the corner of your current avatar/placeholder. (There's also a separate icon further to the right for uploading a banner image.)

Edit: Dang, I didn't expect that image to look so big, it's only 600x300

Everything I've found suggests that searching for the URL or magazine@instance.tld should make it appear in "All Magazines", but that doesn't seem to be the case. Trying to go to https://open-source.social/m/magazine@instance.tld gets me a routing error page. Even if it was working, that's not something we should be expecting people to have to figure out. Needs to be a button like "Subscribe to magazine on other instance" that then asks to enter the URL for that magazine.