Outside the box idea:
Shut down the Pub, migrate all Pub posts to the public forum, make donations optional.
Then you achieve sponsorship + ad revenue
If an incentive is needed for sponsorship, we could brainstorm other ideas..
"Want to know what comes next for ATSC 3.0? That depends entirely on whether broadcasters can remember they're in the business of serving communities, not just monetizing spectrum."
It's not that they can't remember, it's that they don't care.
Reddit is trash. It's full of bots, p0rn, bots, hate speech, and is largely unmoderated. I refuse to make an account there. It reminds me of IRC (if anybody remembers that).
Edit: did I say 'bots' twice? Meh. I'll leave it that way. 😁
It seems to me that our three main competitors are:
https://legitfta.com/
https://www.linuxsat-support.com/board/1-linuxsat-infocenter/
https://www.sat-universe.com/index.php
All three of these sites seem to be healthy and doing well. What could we emulate?