I think the allow-list thing could be re-worked and stretched a little.

E.g., does lemmy.ml (or the Lemmy server software) have a page/endpoint that lists the instances it currently federates with? This could be tracked by other servers at their own discretion. Then, for the people that “don’ wanna trust nobody” they can look at other instances other than lemmy.ml for an allow-list, or just roll their own :D

I would use Alacritty but muh ligatures

I’m just browsing and then switching back to change it a little. This is great

Is this actually going to get anywhere?

I’m not even being cynical; just honestly asking. I have no idea if these kind of recommendations have been made before, or if this is first of its kind.