TLDR: standing all day long can be worse than sitting, but alternating standing and sitting positions is very good for your health.
Standing desks have never been promoting standing all day imo, the title is pure clickbait. Standing desks are good for your health, just use them correctly.
Good read, I think the practical example of enshittification makes it easier to understand.
I do run Piped locally for my family’s use, it seems that it works better than public instances but I haven’t really measured to what extent (except for ping, which is obviously excellent at 4ms).
I would say that the problem with self-hosting for private use is limited privacy, as the benefits of grouping multiple users behind the same proxy are lost. I try to mitigate this by routing all piped traffic through a VPN though.
Restaurants playing radio are the worst… Once you’re at your table and you realize you will hear ads the whole time it’s already too late