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While I love traditional forum structure, I don’t think it would be great to transition later from one structure to another completely different. In my mind, the only thing that needs a bit of tuning is the “Hot” algorithm of the front page

It depends also what you consider AOSP. There isn’t really an AOSP anymore, the default AOSP apps have been left to die from Google since forever, in favour of its own apps. All ROMs are just different flavours with different default apps for the needed phone functions

Paywalling a better resolution than the ones ALREADY present on the platform, may be the best way to approach the issue of it being fucking expensive to serve it.

Youtube has gone to shit and the enhanced 1080p bitrate is not one of the reasons

Notebookcheck is one of the best review sites, with extreme attention to detailed testing. I have e been following them for many years, over a decade for sure

Along with the premium version, they have a crypto currency (TON) that can be used to buy things on the platform from other users, and I think you can also buy things with real money and they keep a small commission. Also there are some small ads in very large channels (not groups, channels only) and ways to gift “stars” to other people, like Patreon or sth

The encryption is not Trust me bro. It is public and tested multiple times. For example an analysis back in 2021:

https://mtpsym.github.io/

It found somes issues in the implementation of MTProto 2.0 from the official apps, with only one of them being actually usable as an attack vector, and they were all fixed before the disclosure of the analysis. They found no issues with the encryption algorithm other than some choices that may make the implementation of it harder