OK, so apparently this horrible new UI is the new Mastodon 5.0 default one. There's no going back. This is unusable on desktop. Apparently there is a bit of outrage on Github about the change, but this seems a deliberate redesign choice that took some time to preemptively collect user feedback, so maybe it's just me being weird. But I need to find alternative solutions.

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