Such slander doesn’t deserve any response and is best left ignored.

Trotsky has sent in a silly letter. We shall neither print it nor reply to him

This could potentially be implemented as a Lemmy theme, which users would be able to select on the settings page.

It is a mixed bag. When reading excessively long lines of text, it becomes difficult to locate the next line after completing one. Allowing lines of text to become too long is considered poor typography for this reason. When the lines are constrained to a reasonable length, the text becomes easier to read. Think about a page from a novel, or a sheet of A4 paper. They are shaped like that for a reason. Of course, images and video are another story. Constraining the size of an image or video with such wide margins does nothing to aid visibility.

Back in 1995 we had an “Internet Phonebook.” Literally a 4 inch thick book which listed domain names and brief descriptions. This was before / just as the search engines we know today were taking off. Google was founded in 1998. Alta Vista and Yahoo! had only just been founded in '95.