Exactly. This shit is radicalizing people.

Yeah it's a great directory

How about crossposting stuff from reddit there to get the engagement up?

Is this the comment or just the mod message? If it's just the mod message what was the comment?

Damn. Good that I'm not in the US

He is currently busy destroying the democracy in the US

I think it's crazy that an art sub is more popular than an art forum.

I suppose it's the low barrier. People are already on Reddit and thus join the subreddits.

We have a great opportunity with the Fediverse here to replace them.

What hosting do you use? You can easily host it using docker.

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md

For them Google is basically the internet.

~~could~~ want

No it doesn't. If Google stops supporting it, the community forks it and continues development. Has happened often in the past.

No. Brave builds on top of the Chromium engine which is from Google but open source.