> the last source of truth are forums.. but not reddit... if it has a CEO it will rot and enshitify.

Quick gripe-anecdote that occurred (again) just now: I have a technical question, the search-engine says it was discussed in a Reddit thread, so I go to Reddit, giving them my traffic and eyeballs just like they want... but the information is impossible to find because "new" Reddit hides/collapses 90% of the discussion by default and there's no way to tell which branch has what I need without manually clicking them all. (And them some of them will reload the entire page, erasing progress.)

So I have no sympathy for their whining about scraping when they spent already years making it painful for actual live organic humans to find anything.

> Which is what social media is/should/was about

I think our two imperfect approaches here are:

1. Webs of trust, in some way that resists crowds of sockpuppets.

2. Some kind or proof of stake. Proof of anonymous-humanity is hard, proof of unique-humanity is creepy spy stuff, but "proof if you ban me it'll at least hurt a little" might be easier to achieve.