I am seeing the same thing. I saw in another post that you can only see content from other communities after someone from your home instance has subscribed to it.
I created a 2nd account on a different instance, subscribed to nothing on both, and filtered by all>hot for both, and sure enough the content I see is way different. Some posts I can’t even find on my other account when I search for it.
Never heard of this rule but sounds like a cultural difference. I wish people would take their shoes off in my home but it’s not common around here.
You might be right with desktop users, but I’m guessing now that lemmy is gaining traction more people will want to change the UI like you. For now, I bet a lot of the users are on mobile and it’s not difficult to be better than the official reddit app.
I’ve had a Cuisinart TOA-60 for 4 years now and still going strong while using it multiple times a week. They replaced it with the TOA-70 so that one’s a little cheaper now. It looks the same so I assume the same quality but who knows.