From the README:

Feel free to take a look around. We are not yet taking patches as we still have a little bit of tidying up to do. When we do, there will be a contributor license agreement.

So yeah, looks like there will be a CLA.

I blocked most news communities. Stuff slips through, but I don’t really have the mental capacity to care about it.

Use an app? I use Voyager and it’s a really smooth experience, and I haven’t re-logged in since I first got it.