become profitable when needed

By what, laying off all QA and support staff and half your developers the moment a single quarterly earnings report isn’t spotlessly gilded?

The names of release versions are famous FFXIV Garleans

It helps that their business model doesn’t rely primarily on ads or user tracking, and instead relies on subscriptions from other news businesses. This obviously isn’t perfect as they do serve some ads, and it requires those other businesses to exist and be profitable, but it’s a helpful layer of insulation.

I just manually filter them in Sync. I don’t have a concrete rule, but if someone has multiple posts at the top of my feed in different communities on more than one occasion, there’s a good chance I’ll filter them.

Yes!

Most people I know who read a lot use StoryGraph, and mostly for personal tracking, not as a social app.