1. I do often wear them with nothing playing, but even that impacts my situational awareness, which is even more impacted if I put music on.
2. I don’t want to be listening to music, a podcast, etc., right now, I just want to hear the low, white noise of the environment. This is especially applicable when out in nature.

Niche interests and/or local stuff. My city has basically no activity over here, so I still browse the local subreddit regularly.

Any idea how things might be handled when things get crossposted? Will replies on the crossposted threads also become comments on their sites? Or only replies to the original post?