Perhaps a solution to this would be using an app like Mastodon Redirect? The app does the work of getting instance links so they can be automatically opened and there is also a variant called Lemmy Redirect for Lemmy. The catch is that both developers need to support it and users have to enable each instance manually or run through various commands to do them all at once.

Most of the Play Store is already ads to be fair.

Yeah, you’re likely right but it would be nice to see some improvements like the split screen search shown or the web version. Right now everything is in one column which seems like a waste of space.

Hopefully this also makes it to ChromeOS given they leaned towards the “large screen devices” wording. Would make browsing easier.

Don’t quote me on this but I don’t think this is possible/easy to do without root. Last I heard the recents screen is handled by the original launcher. There might be other ways though.

Yeah, I also do wish the glide typing was a bit more accurate.

Yep

I use Thunder because it’s the most M3 looking app but still pretty functional.

I use Florisboard with a custom M3 theme. If I remember I tried a bunch of keyboards and ended up sticking with FlorisBoard.

Auto Auto-Rotate - Allows you to pick specific apps to turn on auto-rotate for while turning it off for the others. Works great if you wish to keep it on for media and video apps but not other apps.