Not to be contrarian, but b) could well be a full decade of work and numerous individual projects

Obvious Beehaw bias but I don’t get the whole weirdness about defed. Like maybe it’s a hammer where some problems are screws, but elegant solutions are for people with VC funding.

This is like seeing a negative steam review with 1.2k hours of playtime.

PS:T is good though, no guff there.

This is good and bad to me. I like the idea of a series of little neighborhoods. You know your home well, and have a place of comfort if you don’t feel like dealing with the wider world, but it’s all still very accessible (or ideally very accessible. Discovery is an ongoing issue without for you algos). Forums were nice, but it was always annoying if you were on more than one proboards (or what have you) and you were switching sites to see your variety of friends. Discord solves the same problems, but I also don’t trust that company at all.

Reddit gave you that comfort zone for certain topics, but only if it’s not a popular or contentious one. And like it’s nice to be able to have my comfort zone be more diverse than my 5 favorite topics.

Ssl will hide the contents but not the metadata. It’s easy enough to build a profile on you just by understanding what sites you visit.

Not that it contradicts your comment, but it’s worth noting those ads could well have been inserted by the platform or the podcast publisher.