The main thing I don't currently like is how you can only left-swipe on a post (no right-swipe) and you have to swipe the exact right distance to get the action you want (short for upvote, medium for save, and long for hide). I'd like the option to be able to fully customize the swiping actions in both directions and limit how many actions can be performed (for example, just hide for left-swipe and save for right-swipe, regardless of how far you swipe).

As someone who's looking into different apps currently, how does liftoff compare to Jerboa and Connect?

Yeah, I'm really hoping Lemmy gets a manual hide/unhide feature similar to Reddit at some point.