1. Yes. I prefer the Lemmy/Reddit layout.

2. I actually dont see any critical flaws with Lemmy.

By defederating from the illegal servers and with some team effort its easy to cut down on spam.

While I agree with Kapow on the sentiment that taking the server down highlights the problem with a centralized server it kinda sucks that once the federation got traction it gets shut down lol.

Cant undelete the time spend growing the server and taking the time to upload memes, articles etc.