Thanks for a reminder that I should look into userscripts for kbin. — For now, I’m using the Stylus extension (in desktop Firefox & Chrome) to apply custom CSS. Nothing fancy yet, just simple overrides to remove some margins and padding to make the “compact” view more compact.
see also this previous discussion:
https://kbin.social/m/selfhosted@lemmy.world/t/182362/What-are-your-backup-solutions