Not for self defense (obviously) and due to personal reasons on hiatus currently (if all goes well I will start again next year) - but I do Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA).
It's fencing, but mainly with longsword (tried sword&buckler and a bit of rapier), techniques recreated based on historical fencing books and manuals. Really fun!
Poor Russians though, it always got marginally better at best, and then it got worse again... Hope their next change is around the corner and is longer lasting.
So you are not always pedantic. So you are not really pedantic if you said you are always but are not... unless you were pedantic about saying you are not always pedantic?
So when people say "better" in this context, most likely they mean the general feel tha objective reasons inpacting day to day user experience.
The objectively better features are open source nature and the decentralization - but this may actually make user experience worse (meaning more complicated to understandandget into).
As for the "better feeling" aspect, it just feels more like Reddit used to be once upon a time. Everything is more natural. Reddit is a very mainstream and corporate place and you can feel it for at least few years now.
Oh, interesting. Thanks for clarifying that. So in fact the Google crackdown was already worked around, it's just Piped who needs to update stuff I guess
Now I can't unsee it