I was surprised to see someone namedrop Gaia. I still log in daily out of habit.
Honestly I'm in a similar situation. Discord seems to be the way to go, but it's hard to look past the privacy issues and enshittification. IIRC you can rig up Matrix to work with discord "servers" but I don't see how that would solve the root problem.
First of all, that's very well put. Secondly, voting is anonymous for a reason. What happens at the ballot box is between you and your conscience. Nobody has the right to tell you how to vote.
Third of all, fuck, man, I'm so tired of living in this reality. Jesus Christ we really are at the point where we have to choose between endorsing genocide or something even worse. Wish I knew the way to fix this situation, but I'm dumb as shit. Just do the best you can.
It defaults to opt-out ONLY if you have already told it to prevent other forms of scraping, such as search engines. Otherwise you are opted in by default.
I never even considered that the name referred to baby boomers I thought it just meant they went "boom"