Your redirect idea would probably work excellently as a browser extension — there are are redirect extensions like that for Mastodon already, actually.

As for the domain… the only thing I can think of would be, like you said, a Lemmy instance.

From what I understand, opening a port isn’t a risk in and of itself — it’s only a risk if the software using the port is insecure! So long as you use reliable software and take care to configure things properly (following through with instructions from a site like ArchWiki or the official documentation helps), you’re good.

CloudFlare is more for DDOS protection, which you almost certainly don’t need . You could always set up DDOS protection later on, if the need ever arises.

Yea, output’ll vary widly based on context. Heck, even if you start from scratch with identical prompts, output’ll still be randomized.

Consolidation on the net definitely is a market failure, can’t argue that.

https://media.mas.to/masto-public/custom_emojis/images/000/150/915/original/9d21d5b945b1c8d1.png

Sorry to the rest of the world that uses a more sensible date formatting.

Counter-point: If you view 6/9 as a shortened form for 23/6/9 instead of for 6/9/23, then it’s a perfectly sensible format. Year > month > day, it’s perfect! God loves it! It’s standard!