I miss that world when XMPP was king and almost everyone was just using whatever frontend for it and there were no "we're moving to our own privative, closed source protocol because security and features" cheap excuses so everyone could message everyone :(

Europe must be careful not to simply replace American corporations with European ones, but to strive towards collective ownership instead.
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we need to design systems in which self-hosting is structurally possible but not strictly necessary.

I agree totally! 👏️