Good job on releasing your project to the public! Making FOSS because you are frustrated/horrified with permissions of the existing apps is something that I can truly relate to.

It's only natural that FOSS apps should thrive on platform such as Lemmy/Kbin

Thanks for the kind words. It's a passion project, so I use my frustration for bloated, over engineered apps to fuel the development of Cofi

It's a per app thing. Developers need to support it sadly it causes some issues with layout that most developers don't want to deal with, so it's not that popular. It's especially an issue in the multiplatform apps that share codebase with iOS

You can also search for "One handed mode" in the system settings ,lthat will pull down the notification shade when you swipe down on the gesture pill

Thanks! Let me know how it goes, I'm open for any and all feedback

You can use one of the bunch of RSS feed readers to do that. I haven't use it for years (basically since I lost everything I had on Google reader) so I cannot recommend you any apps

Bad apples can be anywhere. FOSS is about community and helping each other so we should focus on the positives

Most of the FOSS is something that someone built for themselves and released for other just because. Try not to hold grudges if someone is annoyed that suddenly they get spammed with request that they don't wanna deal with.