Just joined, and well, I'm thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you've done quite some good work here.
I originally asked this question because I'm new to Lemmy and wasn't sure if I was missing something about why the design was this way. I didn't know if there was some setting or other way to modify to get it to have a different design.
Having looked into it a bit more, just seems there isn't a way to do it ourselves, perhaps as the userbase expands there might be someone who eventually develops extensions.
What I have noticed is there's apparently other Lemmy instances that run a different UI, but maybe they aren't really federated with everyone else. Hexbear.net was one I just found out about. Basically I'm wondering if anyone knows of other instances that are part of the fediverse.
I understand why they might like to constrain the column, but it would be nice if there was an option to turn that off and let you just control the width yourself by sizing the browser window.