It makes sense in terms of opportunism, greed, and for laying three groundwork for a future where you do not own your own computer but do everything in the cloud (because that is where the power is). Remember the whole “you will.own nothing and be happy” thing… so same argument as when businesses moved from self hosting on site. Short version, they want you with a subscription for everything and they can control everything you do.

So they can say they listened to users when they launch premium super plus without ads. Repeat ad infinitum (pun intended i suppose).

I am pretty sure he is yelling “Get off my lawn!”

“Snap back to reality, ope, there goes gravity” - Eminem.

There is of course reticulum.

To a cat, a gecko is a gecko…

Everyone will have their own use case. Some will like the networking or prepper aspect of it. Other would like the privacy and chat security aspect. Its nice to know of options because you never know when it would/could become a necessity. It is still very early days, but I don’t see it working hand in hand with things like Mastodon and the like.

Everyone will have their own use case. Some will like the networking or prepper aspect of it. Other would like the privacy and chat security aspect. Its nice to know of options because you never know when it would/could become a necessity. It is still very early days, but I don’t see it working hand in hand with things like Mastodon and the like.

On a related note, have a look at reticulum… still early days, but growing fast https://reticulum.network/manual/zen.html

Baby toe unexpectedly hitting an immovable object works pretty well short term, but is hardly a grest solution. Best solution other than seeking professional help is to try hobbies that encourage live human interaction.