I find that it's good to ask questions that allow them to vent further.

The trick is to do the hobbies for their own sake instead of using them as a means to an end.

Gaslighting is convincing someone that they perceived or remembered things incorrectly. That's a very specific kind of manipulation.

The silver lining here is that the world has gained an extremely compelling argument for regulations.

I experience this more on ios than on android.

The fragmentation of communities needs to be addressed. The fact is that most people just want to consume content. There needs to be a client-side solution that helps less tech-savvy users to more easily consume content from similar communities.

I personally like the duplicates because different communities have different comments.

Make it user specific. Feeds are combined solely from the individual user's perspective. Consumption would be easier but submissions are still federated.

Is it really? I feel like people in war torn countries have more important shit to care about. This might be another instance of "terminally online person being offended on someone else's behalf"

Advice on choosing between two things that are only marginally different.

Shipping is essentially fan fiction. It's fine as long as nobody takes anything too seriously.

Form a starting team based on skill sets and let them do the rest. Give them a project and they will tell you what they need if they feel assured that you have the capability and will to help them. You want the team to cater to the product, not to the manager because manager satisfaction does not bring value to the organization or the customer. You only need to manage more closely if for some reason you were only able to gather junior devs.