Well, here's most of my stuff:
I loved how slide for reddit solved that. You could set it to mark posts as read on scrolling them of screen and you'd have a floating button to hide read posts. So you could easily check for new comments or find new posts.
I use Linkding. Imported all bookmarks from browser and added tags. Helps me find stuff later. Search is also good. My bookmark bar in the browser is now only for quickly accessing the stuff I need daily.
On android Antennapod if you want open source, podcast addict if you want total control. The latter has settings/options for everything (when to download what, fine tuneable playlists, etc.), but is not what I would call user friendly.
Bets on how long it'll hold this time? :-)
+1 for mxroute. Happy customer since last black Friday. No fuss and just works (after reading the how-to). Also spam detection is good.
That depends. I think a one user instance as jumping point to the fediverse won't be too much hassle.
You could host on Oracle free tier. I use an ARM free instance, which is plenty for me. And you can always scale or move somewhere else if you'd have many more users.
Could you tell me the name of the company?