Those are still external services. I didn’t mention them because they carry the exact same risks

TWP dumps your pages to google translate, no thanks. FF is on device

I guess, but even without talking about forums, even a subreddit would at least be publicly accessible and searchable. Using discord is effortless but antagonistic, at least a subresdit would be both effortless and in the service of the public.

Sure, I’d prefer an open source self hosted platform, but I’m hard pressed to find anything worse than discord