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Wow OK! I didn’t know about Infomaniak kSuite, thank you. Looks great!

RSS feeds, Gemini and Gopher. Always good stuff there, and feels cosier than social media!

RFF will be missed! For Fedi music you could try https://theindiebeat.fm/ … or this one has mixes rather than radio https://www.audiointerface.org/

I think it won’t be abandoned, but we have to find better ways of filtering out AI slop. There are already quite a few search engines with curated networks of personal sites.

Another option is we switch to a different protocol. But internet style networks are too useful for human communication to abandon, I think.

loops.video is in development, from the same dev who did Pixelfed

This is the answer! Most people will not ever install a new operating system.

To be honest, I’m Irish and it seems to me colonialism influences a country to cling to their cultural practices more fiercely. Couple that with massive inter-generational trauma. In the case of Ireland, unfortunately that meant we had a brutal theocracy for decades after the British left.

I think the only reason Ireland is in any way more progressive now is because they let us join the European Union, and they gave us money!

Anyway I think you sound like a great person and the best of luck. I emigrated myself too, to England ironically…

Self hosted ‘The Lounge’ is great.