I love that your last paragraph explains that you want to avoid things going into a landfill by reinventing a landfill.

Lemmy is free and libre, but I sorely miss my world news and Ukraine updates.

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I like thelounge as a client since I can access it anywhere in the world and it stays connected when I’m not on it so I don’t miss any messages or have to log in each time.

Keep in mind that libera chat is just one server. If you hop on some other server you will get different channels (rooms) and people. I’m on a few including libera chat, sdf.org, and AfterNET.

Please consider taking a look at the lounge. It’s a self hosted solution that you access thru the web. It’s solved that problem for me since it is always running on the server. If you have a Raspberry Pi you can use that or a VPS.

I’m in #dosgameclub on AfterNET every day