I feel like your best bet is ESPHome and the ESP family of devices. Last time I checked you could get the parts for a project like this off Amazon (with spare parts) for under 20$.
Anki is a lot more robust than just about anything else out there. Particularly as a supplement to other learning. I've been through a lot of different language learning systems and my anki decks have been a constant throughout.
Bonfire is one of the fediverse projects I'm most excited about right now. I hope they don't get too bogged down in organizational work right now. They're awfully close to version 1.0
Coming back to this topic after some time. What do you think about the private group criticism of FEP-1b12? Is this resolvable without leaving the standard set by FEP-1b12? My first instinct is yes, but I imagine you've given this a lot more thought than I have.
imo biggest thing to watch going into this year is whether or not the groups rework on Mastodon (currently listed as in-progress on their roadmap) improves federation between the two communities. At this point, how well a service federates with the larger network is probably the single most important aspect with regards to establishing natural growth. Not surprising as the strength of the fediverse is fundamentally interoperability.
Eh it's only just stabilized, now is exactly when we'd expect efforts for natural growth to become active. Worth noting, at this point growth probably comes from Mastodon not Reddit.
I left a while ago but I am disappointed to the degree that people over here are willing to carry water for hexbear. They absolutely cannot be trusted to be good faith actors.
A groups rework is currently on mastodon's roadmap as inprogress. We've not heard a lot of what this will look like but it's very likely it will solve issue 1.
2 is related to how Mastodon handles the ¿page? object in the activitypub spec. I believe Mastodon prefers notes but could implement dedicated handling of it and probably will at some point.
3 is actually just incorrect. All you need to do is mention the community and it will post.
I feel like your best bet is ESPHome and the ESP family of devices. Last time I checked you could get the parts for a project like this off Amazon (with spare parts) for under 20$.
https://esphome.io/