Spaceman Spiff

There’s a lot of good info here, but there’s a missing piece to consider- Some TVs just aren’t sharp/clear enough to be used as monitors. They work fine as TVs, and may even work as a media center/Plex client/etc. But you will be unable to use them for e.g. web browsing in any real way.

Unfortunately, the only real way to know this is to connect it and see.

Side note: Avoid Nord. If you aren’t using torrents, get Mullvad. If you are (and thus need port forwarding, which isn’t supported by Nord anyway), I’m not sure right now. Possibly AirVPN?

Reddit isn’t just trying to balance the budget - they are specifically scrambling to make things work (or at least, look like they will work) for an IPO, which is a beast in and of itself.

Not OP, but my communities are homed on a number of different instances. At minimum, I need to be able to interact with them, both reading and widely distributing my posts/comments. Preferably all on the same account, but that’s gotten more difficult lately.

For any communities I may create, I generally want to ensure that they can be accessed widely, by most users in the fediverse.

All of this preferably without having to deal with tankies, Nazis, etc.

Surviving is a pretty bad metric, especially for social media. Digg “survived”. So did MySpace, Tumblr, and more. It’s too soon to say about Twitter, but their future (in general) doesn’t look very bright. They aren’t going to disappear, but they also aren’t going to be the cultural powerhouse they used to be.

More importantly, the move needs to be profitable. On the surface, it is- 3rd party app users don’t currently bring in money. Converting any of them at all to paid or ad-viewing users yields a net profit, if you keep a narrow focus.

Having these users active and engaged on your platform has a value as well, but one that’s really hard to quantify.