No idea who came up and popularized this UX crime but this isn’t the first app I’ve come across that opens all or most of the dropdown and context menus from the bottom of the screen. Causing a complete disconnect from the action triggering the menu.
Really hope this gets fixed as I quite enjoy this one out of the currently available lemmy apps.
It used to be in the Apple UI guidelines that they should open from the bottom. But that changed a long time ago (although some 1st Party apps haven’t complete changed)
Nowadays they shouldn’t be opening like (because buttons are a long way from the button) that but some do.