and is stronger than ever

Arguing semantics here, but this is a bit of a stretch. Iran has suffered very significant damage. A more accurate assessment would be that it withstood the US's onslaught without having their military or their government broken, and have exposed the US military as being too inept to properly wage war.

The takeaway is similar in the context of the war, but its the US that has fallen rather than Iran having risen, which has much more significant global implications.

Yes, but again, at that point the government will prosecute anyone who opposes them. Giving corporations a couple minor defenses doesn't remove the government's power, it just helps shift the blame to the masses rather than large corporations who are likely complicit with the government.

I mean, if the courts will actually convict for that, you've got a much bigger issue than social media - at that point the government in question can arrest anyone whenever they want.

Theres plenty of different ways to handle it, but the simplist would be based on if avoidable harm can be problem in a court of law. If a social media site shows someone a parade of content telling them to kill themselves, they should be able to be held liable, whereas right now the currators recommending negative content and hiding positive are held as innocent bystanders.

As well as privacy laws, another route would be limitting the control the companies have over what you are shown. If these social media companies are going to exert control over everything the user sees, they should be responsible for the consequences of what is shown. After all, if a TV station broatcasts a show that, for example, encourages suicide, it would obviously be held responsible. If social media is dictating what a user sees on the platform rather than the other way around, whats the difference?

Honestly, my immediately reaction is that all three of these genres are basically live-service MMOs. Getting and maintaining a large enough playerbase would not be an easy feat. The different gameplay loops may make things more difficult, but extraction shooters and survival games have a lot of overlap, although I can't picture how a 5v5 shooter would benefit from being built on top of this.

I would also warn that large-scale projects like these tend to be exponentially more difficult, without significantly increased odds of success. If this is a long-term passion project, no reason not to pursue it, but if you're hoping to turn it into a buisness, you're probably better off looking into something with a lower playercount required.

I'd say easier, but not by much. On average, there is less to dodge, and you have more flexibility, but things are faster overall.

Lemmy's core developers are Tankies (radical supporters of the CCP and anyone else claiming to carry on second world ideology, such as Putin) as are many of those running older instances. This includes older instances such as Lemmygrad and lemmy.ml, which makes them very entrenched. Still, they seem to be a very vocal minority, since larger instances like Lemmy.world lean away from that, and PieFed (an alternative but still intercompatible Lemmy alternative) is popular in part from those wishing to move away from Lemmy's tankie developers.