3-button nav bar all the way. gesture navigation just feels so ambiguous and inexact compared to discrete buttons. I never understood why google decided to copy that stupid anti-feature from ios when they already had a superior system that worked (and still works) perfectly well.

even with a cone?

Mainly infinity. Before that I used slide, and before that joey.

just southeast of the midwest

punctuation too

I switched over from my previous instance to rammy.site specifically because it doesn't block any instances and (afaik) no other instances block it. So far it's working pretty well for me. Alternatively, like others have mentioned, you could host your own instance and then it won't defederate anyone if you don't want it to.