Points for mentioning a solution, but being condisending and talking down to people isn’t a great way to get them excited about becoming involved. It’s better to let people in on the joke rather than make them the joke.

But global warming hasn’t finished pre-heating yet, so they won’t cook properly.

What are you switching to?

Then I’m gunna burn your house down! With lemons!

What other platforms? From what I’ve heard there isn’t any other viable, quality platform. YouTube effectively a monopoly

That’s not DRM though. It’s my machine I’ll do what I want with it. You have no rights over what I do and don’t load on my computer.

Once I clicked onto one of their articles, it made me sign up (used a burner email) then it brought me to a completely different article

For AI altered memes I’m willing to give people the benifit of the doubt and assume people are just to lazy to look for the original or assume they wouldn’t be able to find it so they just go on an image generator and ask it to make the meme. Still should just look for the original though.

Just to give more unique feedback (although everything you have is good) if your willing to self host, add immich to google photo replacements since it’ll back up photos across devices (I haven’t personally looked at ente photos) and depending on how important hiding your traffic from your ISP is, consider replacing a VPN with TrackerControl which helps to stop apps from phoning home.