I find that it's good to ask questions that allow them to vent further.

The trick is to do the hobbies for their own sake instead of using them as a means to an end.

The silver lining here is that the world has gained an extremely compelling argument for regulations.

The fragmentation of communities needs to be addressed. The fact is that most people just want to consume content. There needs to be a client-side solution that helps less tech-savvy users to more easily consume content from similar communities.

Make it user specific. Feeds are combined solely from the individual user's perspective. Consumption would be easier but submissions are still federated.

If the mods are gone, then large subreddits become a legal liability.

You'll have to use the search option and hope for good results. The fragmentation of communities seems to be a rising topic these days. While it's good that posts and comments are fragmented, I think personal feeds should be consolidatable.

Is it really? I feel like people in war torn countries have more important shit to care about. This might be another instance of "terminally online person being offended on someone else's behalf"

Advice on choosing between two things that are only marginally different.

Or just make it user-side. Let users create their own feed combinations. They'd still have to select a specific instance for posts.

Feeds would be consolidated but posts and comments will still be federated. And one user will be unaffected by how another user organizes their feed.

Shit I might just try this out. I hope my colleagues don’t notice.

Don't take too long trying to figure out a challenge by yourself. Ask questions. Unlike in school, you are allowed to ask for help with your work.

Learn how to write unit testable code as soon as possible (SOLID principles). Learn how to write concise and relevant unit tests. If it's not in your team's culture to write unit tests, then you go be that guy. It's good for you and it's good for the product. Unit tests are one of the few things in the programming community that everybody believes are a good thing.