The request was respectful and SUSEs support on OpenSUSE is very helping the project so I’d personally be fine with fulfilling that request

Downloaded it and I love it!

Don't use a free one. Use ProtonVPN or Mullvad VPN. In general even for normal browsing. Free VPNs are trash.

It's not a front end for Lemmy but it's a website that you can use to find new communities over several instances. It's called Lemmy Explorer.

Honestly everything besides Debian and Arch after distro hopping for years.

I'd say in general this would be Bonfire but it's still in active development and not yet ready to run stable as a public instance.