Summary: There's Microsoft gossip or rumours regarding an impending big wave of layoffs; the source of these rumours is 100% external to us (independent) and pro-Microsoft media chaff seems to be proactive 'damage control'
Garrett was the first person to face sanctions (like muting) in our IRC channels because of his abuse; worse yet, he hijacked other people's names and then locked them out of their own accounts
People creating their own platforms means progress, whereas centralisation (like moving from blogs to social control media) is the opposite of progress
If it was googlebot, it would be possible to argue that you'd at least then get referral traffic from Google Search. With LLMs, all you get is plagiarised.