Thanks for this post. Found my way into a PieFed account because of it. I find the user experience to be much more pleasant indeed. Especially for finding communities across instances and searching for posts/comments in general.
Murderous bullies need to be met with virtuous Luigi Mangiones.
I love you. That's my opinion.
As for actual feedback, when saving/converting images I always require a preview or I'm just not going to use it; I find great satisfaction in carefully trial-and-erroring my way into the nicest image quality with the lowest file size.