Well if the title is for just 2023 I think musk has it, if we take overall negative impact in a lifetime then I'm not sure but musk is probably not as bad.
Maybe you don't run anything worth subscribing to for yourself but if youre running services that have any kind of updates you want to notify people of RSS would be a way to do it. Any kind of blog can have an RSS feed of new posts, you could have a feed of the newest files uploaded to a site.
RSS readers like freshrss let you subscribe to other RSS feeds, so in that case they just work as any other RSS reader.
Third party apps still seem to work still, just logging in is broken on some. Not sure if reddit just "forgot" to disable anyonymous access or if they realized doing so would probably result in DDOSing themselves like twitter did.
Have you given funkwhale a try? I used to host subsonic years ago but i dropped it at some point, started my collection back up after i found out about funkwhale, It also has support for subsonic clients although i havent personally tried that myself yet.
Pullpush is an alternative and free API for reddit, this threat/ban is based on the assumption that pullpush is using the official reddit API, and I guess that its using it exclusively through a single reddit account which they just banned.
It has to do with lawyers because they are trying to make a vague legal threat i guess, Youtube made a similar demand of invidious and sent a C&D to them for violating ToS of the Youtube API which they do not use.. So I dont think the lack of lawyers is the issue so much as lack of competent engineers who could explain to the lawyers that one does not need to use API to get content from a public website which requires no login to see contents.
Now might be a great time to join the Fediverse alternative FunkWhale. I've already built up a collection of nearly 10,000 songs on mine, almost all of which i downloaded from deezer.
The main thing they lack is an easy to use Discord to [XMPP, simplex, session] bridge, If they have that then you could just hop on whichever you prefer and be in touch with the group. Love it or hate it, discord is the top chat app for the moment and being able to interact with it is a necessity.
Matrix has basically come in to place as IRC "2.0" with developers, nearly every fediverse project has Matrix channels, most open source projects in general are starting to have them. XMPP has many years on Matrix but it never took off in regards to that very critical niche of early adopters, developers and power users. XMPP was a good competetor to the web 1.0 chat apps of AIM and MSN but Discord and other apps are much more rich content focused.
Simplex seems to only have a command line interface for PC, it als owould be pretty clunky for groups i think, I have yet to see anyone advertise a Simplex "group chat" in the way they would a discord server, but perhaps there are examples out there.
Session is somewhat better but hinges on the success of a cryptocurrency for its continued development so thats a no from me, also seems to have a lot of scammers although perhaps not as bad as telegram.
I dont think honeypot is the right term here, the only situation i can see something like this being at all useful is for a border search where you have to unlock your computer to be searched, in which case you'll need to actually hide the fact that there is a second partition at all, my suggestion would be get a laptop that can support 2 internal drives, unplug one before you travel and have the second one be a generic windows install with some stuff to make it look used.
Well if the title is for just 2023 I think musk has it, if we take overall negative impact in a lifetime then I'm not sure but musk is probably not as bad.