Mostly to do with how posts are composed which was always cramped and weird in the past.

And no more mixing up normal posts with DMs.

Neat. Mostly aesthetics, but I can seen how a lot of those will help users a tonne, and IRL make the whole thing a lot more polished

Strong focus on UI and terminology and markdown is still nowhere to be found 😮‍💨

no talk about improving integration with groups/communities or any other platforms at all :(

I doubt they will ever add it at this point. Mastodon can display markdown on posts from Akkoma just fine so it must be that they don't want Masto users to have access to markdown at all. Fortunately, Fediverse is more than just Mastodon so you can join an Akkoma instance instead, or one of the forks of Mastodon.

They are big so they don't care. If it was Threads that had some federation problems it would be a high priority task for the developer team to fix it. But Lemmy is too small for them to care about us.

They should care. They aren't really growing. And hashtags don't work well with federation, groups/communities are much better for that.

They aren’t really growing

To be fair, we aren't either.

And hashtags don’t work well with federation, groups/communities are much better for that.

Agreed but they already have groups and Lemmy communities kind of work so they will just ignore the issues and focus on improving ✨Mastodon experience✨